附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index.
1. Divergent trends. The peculiar present of American capital punishment -- More than a trend : abolition in the developed nations -- The symbolic transformation of American capital punishment -- 2. Explaining the American difference. Federalism and its discontents -- The vigilante tradition and modern executions -- The consequences of contradictory values -- 3. Capital punishment in the American future. The no-win 1990s -- The beginning of the end -- Appendix A. Statistical materials on lynchings and executions -- Appendix B. Reported frequencies of national death penalty policy, 1980 to 2001 -- Appendix C. Death row and execution statistics -- Appendix D. New survey analysis materials -- Appendix E. Justified killings by citizens and police, by state -- Appendix F. Review of death penalty exoneration data from the Death Penalty Information Center.
摘要:Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will soon bring about the end of capital punishment in ourcountry. On the one hand, execution would seem to violate our nation'
