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The United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American death penalty has gone into noticeable decline, with annual death sentences and executions dwindling steadily in recent years. In Stay of Execution, Charles Lane offers a fresh analysis of this unexpected trend and its moral and political implications. Countering conventional wisdom that attributes the death penalty's decline to public rejection of the ""ultimate sanction,"" he showsthat it is instead related to the ebbing of violent crime itself. The death penalty is not only
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A New York, en plein hiver, un artiste de rue noir gagne sa vie en dessinant le portrait de passants. Il emménage bientôt dans le sous-sol d'un vieil immeuble abandonné. Un soir, il est témoin, dans le quartier de Manhattan, du meurtre d'un homme. Il recueille sa petite fille de deux ans, et, au même moment, vit une histoire d'amour avec une jeune femme de son âge.Entre le naturalisme d'un Lionel Rogosin et la magie burlesque d'un Chaplin, cette petite merveille signée Charles Lane demeure l'une des figures de proue du cinéma afro-américain des années 1980.
Comportement social --- Années 1980 --- Famille --- Comédie --- Afro-Américain --- Image de la ville --- Mode de vie --- Sans abri --- Manhattan --- Etats-Unis
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Land. Real estate --- Animal husbandry --- Economic geography --- East Africa --- West Africa --- Pastoral systems --- Land tenure --- Land use, Rural --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Law --- Agricultural Law --- Agricultural Law. --- Pastoral systems - Africa, East --- Pastoral systems - Africa, West --- Land tenure - Africa, East --- Land tenure - Africa, West --- Land use, Rural - Africa, East --- Land use, Rural - Africa, West
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