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050	0	4	_aKF9227 _b.C687 2016
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aSteiker, Carol S. _q(Carol Susan), _e1
245	1	0	_aCourting death : _bthe Supreme Court and capital punishment / _cCarol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource (390 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction : regulating the death penalty to death -- _tBefore constitutional regulation -- _tThe Supreme Court steps in -- _tThe invisibility of race in the constitutional revolution -- _tBetween the Supreme Court and the states -- _tThe failures of regulation -- _tAn unsustainable system? -- _tRecurring patterns in constitutional regulation -- _tThe future of the American death penalty -- _tLife after death.
520	0		_a"Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the face of widespread abolition of the death penalty around the world, provisions for capital punishment that had long fallen under the purview of the states were challenged in federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in two landmark decisions, first by constitutionally invalidating the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia (1972) on the grounds that it was capricious and discriminatory, followed four years later by its restoration in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). Since then, by neither retaining capital punishment in unfettered form nor abolishing it outright, the Supreme Court has created a complex regulatory apparatus that has brought executions in many states to a halt, while also failing to address the problems that led the Court to intervene in the first place. While execution chambers remain active in several states, constitutional regulation has contributed to the death penalty's new fragility. In the next decade or two, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue, the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment. Courting Death illuminates both the promise and pitfalls of constitutional regulation of contentious social issues"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bSupreme Court.
650		0	_aCapital punishment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aJudicial review _zUnited States.
650		0	_aDiscrimination in capital punishment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCapital punishment _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aSteiker, Jordan M., _e1
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1364263&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell