TY - BOOK ID - 7142449 TI - Is the death penalty dying? : European and American perspectives AU - Sarat, Austin AU - Martschukat, Jürgen PY - 2011 SN - 9780521763516 0521763517 9780511974380 9781107634275 110763427X 1107217091 051199446X 9786612967184 1282967185 0511992238 051199124X 0511989458 0511987641 0511993277 0511974388 9780511991240 9780511993275 9780511989452 9780511985676 0511985673 9780511994463 9781282967182 6612967188 9781107217096 9780511987649 9780511992230 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Capital punishment KW - Abolition of capital punishment KW - Death penalty KW - Death sentence KW - Criminal law KW - Punishment KW - Executions and executioners KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - Capital punishment - Europe KW - Capital punishment - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7142449 AB - Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition. ER -