{"product_id":"the-slow-death-of-the-death-penalty-toward-a-postmortem-hardcover","title":"The Slow Death of the Death Penalty: Toward a Postmortem - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTodd C. Peppers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJamie Almallen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMary Welek Atwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy the death penalty is in decline across the United States\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight states that still have the death penalty, eight have not had an execution in over a decade. And public support for the death penalty has declined from 80% of the surveyed population in the early 1990s to approximately 50% today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the death penalty slowly withers away, Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, and Mary Welek Atwell bring together a number of distinguished death-penalty scholars, activists, and attorneys to take an accounting of the damage inflicted by the machinery of death. Contributors to the book point to a range of different pathologies which have caused politicians and voters to turn against capital punishment, from unacceptable rates of false convictions and racially motivated prosecutions, to a clemency process poisoned by political factors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssay topics include various dimensions of the death penalty, including racial and gender bias; economic costs; the conviction of juveniles, the mentally ill, and the factually innocent; Supreme Court decisions; and the failure of the death penalty to serve as a deterrent against crime. This important volume is an up-to-date accounting of the current state and, as the contributors argue, the future demise of the death penalty.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTodd C. Peppers (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTodd C. Peppers\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Public Affairs at Roanoke College. He is the author and editor of many books, including \u003ci\u003eOf Courtiers and Princes: Stories of Lower Court Clerks and Their Judges\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Almallen (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJamie Almallen\u003c\/b\u003e is an Assistant Public Defender at the Richmond Public Defender's Office. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Welek Atwell (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMary Welek Atwell\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at Radford University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWretched Sisters: Gender and Capital Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEqual Protection of the Law? Gender and Justice in the United States, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEvolving Standards of Decency: Popular Culture and Capital Punishment. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50737355587890,"sku":"9781479819638","price":185.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0961\/1608\/0946\/files\/BQ6Cx_O6Ba9781479819638.webp?v=1766033734","url":"https:\/\/deskinlawfirm.com\/products\/the-slow-death-of-the-death-penalty-toward-a-postmortem-hardcover","provider":"DLF Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}