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Author : Jamie Fellner
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564321756

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Author : Frank R. Baumgartner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139469207

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Since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by more than 60 percent, reversing a generation-long trend toward greater acceptance of capital punishment. In theory, most Americans continue to support the death penalty. But it is no longer seen as a theoretical matter. Prosecutors, judges, and juries across the country have moved in large numbers to give much greater credence to the possibility of mistakes - mistakes that in this arena are potentially fatal. The discovery of innocence, documented in this book through painstaking analyses of media coverage and with newly developed methods, has led to historic shifts in public opinion and to a sharp decline in use of the death penalty by juries across the country. A social cascade, starting with legal clinics and innocence projects, has snowballed into a national phenomenon that may spell the end of the death penalty in America.

Author : Edward Chapman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : Death row inmates
ISBN : 9781449905446

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Glen Edward Chapman spent more than 13 years on death row for two murders he did not commit (one of which was almost certainly not even a murder) before he was exonerated and set free. This is a story of police misconduct, irresponsible counsel and the team that worked together to prove Chapman's innocence and save his life.