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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.

Capital punishment --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Executions and executioners --- Law --- General and Others --- Capital punishment - Europe --- Capital punishment - United States

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Plus de vingt ans après son abolition en France, les questions posées par l'application de la peine de mort sont réexaminées ici à travers quinze études historiques. Violence légale, l'exécution est par essence paradoxale. Une première série de décalages surgit dans sa mise en oeuvre concrète et ses suites, concernant le statut et le traitement particuliers du condamné. Mais dans sa perception et sa mise en scène, l'exécution publique hésite aussi entre la fête macabre et la leçon salutaire, le spectacle et l'édification. Son symbolisme artificiel, profane ou religieux, en fait ainsi un objet de narration artistique.

Capital punishment --- Executions and executioners --- Capital punishment in art --- Art, European --- History --- Themes, motives --- Death row inmates --- Peine de mort --- Exécutions capitales --- Condamnés à mort --- Histoire --- Criminal law --- Criminal procedure --- Execution sites --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Punishment --- Capital punishment - Europe, Western - History --- Executions and executioners - Europe, Western - History --- Art, European - Themes, motives