Race Class And The Death Penalty
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Author | : Howard W. Allen |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780791474389 |
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Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.
Author | : David P. Keys |
Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : African American criminals |
ISBN | : 9781626373563 |
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In what has been called the Dred Scott decision of our times, the US Supreme Court found in McCleskey v. Kemp that evidence of overwhelming racial disparities in the capital punishment process could not be admitted in individual capital cases, in effect institutionalizing a racially unequal system of criminal justice. Exploring the enduring legacy of this radical decision nearly three decades later, the authors of Race and the Death Penalty examine the persistence of racial discrimination in the practice of capital punishment, the dynamics that drive it, and the human consequences of both. David P. Keys is associate professor of criminal justice at New Mexico State University. R.J. Maratea is assistant professor of criminal justice at New Mexico State University.
Author | : Melynda J. Price |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190205547 |
Download At the Cross Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. At the Cross tells a story of the relationship between the death penalty and race in American politics and how the legal and political impact of this form of punishment move beyond individual black defendants to larger numbers of African Americans.
Author | : Randall G. Shelden |
Publisher | : Ingram |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Imprisonment |
ISBN | : 9781577666325 |
Download Our Punitive Society Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This ... text identifies the macroeconomic forces relevant to imprisonment--poverty and political powerlessness--and explores viable and humane alternatives to our current incarceration binge.
Author | : David Victor Baker |
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Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Download Race, Racism, and the Death Penalty in the United States Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Charles J. Ogletree |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0814740219 |
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Situates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S. Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment. In a bold attempt to tackle the looming question of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, Ogletree and Sarat headline an interdisciplinary cast of experts in reflecting on this disturbing issue. Insightful original essays approach the topic from legal, historical, cultural, and social science perspectives to show the ways that the death penalty is racialized, the places in the death penalty process where race makes a difference, and the ways that meanings of race in the United States are constructed in and through our practices of capital punishment. From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State not only uncovers the ways that race influences capital punishment, but also attempts to situate the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of this country, in particular the history of lynching. In its probing examination of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, this book forces us to consider how the death penalty gives meaning to race as well as why the racialization of the death penalty is uniquely American.
Author | : Sandra J. Jones |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739120385 |
Download Coalition Building in the Anti-death Penalty Movement Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"While a great deal of research has been done about many aspects of the death penalty, very little attention has been paid to the movement organized against it. Coalition Building in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement fills that gap with an empirical examination of the external and internal factors that shape the role race plays in the anti-death penalty movement. While the death rows across the U.S. are overwhelmingly filled with racial minorities and the poor, the ranks of the anti-death penalty movement are dominated by white, middle-class professionals. The attention given to race arise out of this racial distinction between death row inmates and the activists who advocate for them." "By conducting interviews with white, black, and Latino anti-death penalty activists, this book examines the influence of race on the mobilization of activists and their approach toward abolition. The concepts of political opportunity, mobilizing structures, and framing provided by the political process model, are used to describe the complex manner in which moral opposition to the death penalty is shaped by the racial realities of the activists. Although racial tensions lie just below the surface, they nonetheless create real obstacles for the movement as it strives to build a racially diverse coalition of activists aimed at death penalty abolition." --Book Jacket.
Author | : R.J. Maratea |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1479888605 |
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A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases In 1978 Warren McCleskey, a black man, killed a white police officer in Georgia. He was convicted by a jury of 11 whites and 1 African American, and was sentenced to death. Although McCleskey’s lawyers were able to prove that Georgia courts applied the death penalty to blacks who killed whites four times as often as when the victim was black, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence in McCleskey v.Kemp, thus institutionalizing the idea that racial bias was acceptable in the capital punishment system. After a thirteen-year legal journey, McCleskey was executed in 1991. In Killing with Prejudice, R.J. Maratea chronicles the entire litigation process which culminated in what has been called “the Dred Scott decision of our time.” Ultimately, the Supreme Court chose to overlook compelling empirical evidence that revealed the discriminatory manner in which the assailants of African Americans are systematically undercharged and the aggressors of white victims are far more likely to receive a death sentence. He draws a clear line from the lynchings of the Jim Crow era to the contemporary acceptance of the death penalty and the problem of mass incarceration today. The McCleskey decision underscores the racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in modern American capital punishment, and the case is fundamental to understanding how the death penalty functions for the defendant, victims, and within the American justice system as a whole.
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Discrimination in capital punishment |
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The Death Penalty Information Center, based in Washington, D.C., presents information on race and the death penalty. The center offers statistics on executions by race of defendants executed, executions by race of victims, and race of death row inmates.