Description: End of Its Rope : How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice, Hardcover by Garrett, Brandon L., ISBN 0674970993, ISBN-13 9780674970991, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1983 in rural North Carolina, death sentences were commonplace. In 2015, DNA tests set McCollum free. By then, death sentences were as rare as lightning strikes. To most observers this national trend came asa surprise. What changed? Brandon Garrett hand-collected and analyzed national data, looking for causes and implications of this turnaround. End of Its Rope explains what he found, and why the death penalty's demise can be the catalyst for criminal justice reform. No single factor put the death penalty on the road to extinction, Garrett concludes. Death row exonerations fostered rising awareness of errors in death penalty cases, at the same time that a decline in murder rates eroded law-and-order arguments. Defense lawyers radically improved how they litigate death cases when given adequate resources. More troubling, many states replaced the death penalty with what amounts to a virtual death sentence--life without possibility of parole. Today, the death penalty hangs on in a few scattered counties where prosecutors cling to entrenched habits and patterns of racial bias. We can celebrate the death penalty's demise, and we can learn from it. The failed death penalty experiment teaches us how inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments undermine the pursuit of justice. Garrett makes a strong closing case for what a future criminal justice system might look like if these injustices were remedied"--
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Book Title: End of Its Rope : How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Topic: Judicial Power, Evidence, United States / 21st Century, Penology, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law / Sentencing
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 20 oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Brandon L. Garrett
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
