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Author Clarke, Alan W. (Alan William)

Title The bitter fruit of American justice : international and domestic resistance to the death penalty / Alan W. Clarke & Laurelyn Whitt.

Publication Info. Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover, [NH] : Published by University Press of New England, [2007]
©2007

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  364.66 C597B    Check Shelf
Description x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-231) and index.
Contents Human rights and the erosion of absolute sovereignty -- Extradition : holding the United States to a higher human rights standard -- Honoring treaty commitments : the Vienna Convention on consular relations -- Death penalty myths : science confronts conventional wisdom -- Attitudes toward capital punishment : do facts matter? -- Executing the innocent -- The moral potency of the innocence argument -- The imperfectability of the system.
Subject Capital punishment -- United States.
Extradition -- United States.
Human rights -- United States.
Justice, Administration of -- United States.
Added Author Whitt, Laurelyn.
ISBN 9781555536824 cloth alkaline paper
1555536824 cloth alkaline paper
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