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Author: Sheila O’Hare Publisher: McFarland ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 632
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"This reference book provides comprehensive coverage of legal executions performed in the state of California from 1851 until the present. It includes all cases in which legal processes appear to have been observed and the resulting execution was carried out by an authorized representative of the county or state"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Sheila O’Hare Publisher: McFarland ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 632
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"This reference book provides comprehensive coverage of legal executions performed in the state of California from 1851 until the present. It includes all cases in which legal processes appear to have been observed and the resulting execution was carried out by an authorized representative of the county or state"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Eual Blansett Publisher: ISBN: 9781500412265 Category : Languages : en Pages : 234
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This is the story of the 24 men who have been legally executed in the history of San Joaquin County, California. The first execution took place in 1851, one year after California became a state, and the last one was in 1962. This is the story behind the scenes. It deals with the people who committed the homicides, the victims and their families, law enforcement, the courts, clergymen, and the executioners who were called upon by the law to exact the ultimate price for the crimes committed. One case, in particular, struck a cord with the entire nation and newspapers from east to west were eager to provide their readers with every detail as the drama unfolded at the crime scene, in the courts, and even into the governor's mansion itself.
Author: Kathleen A. Cairns Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496211308 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 230
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Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story--beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, "Bloody Babs" became the third woman executed in California--after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks, of all the capital cases in the twentieth century, did Graham's have such political resonance and staying power? Leaving aside the question of guilt or innocence--debated to this day--Cairns examines how Graham's case became a touchstone in the ongoing debate over capital punishment. While prosecutors positioned the accused woman as a femme fatale, the media came to offer a counternarrative for Graham's life highlighting her abusive and lonely beginnings. Cairns shows how Graham's case became crucial to the abolitionists of the time, who used instances of questionable guilt to raise awareness of the arbitrary and capricious nature of death penalty prosecutions. Critical in keeping capital punishment in the forefront of public consciousness until abolitionists homed in on a winning strategy, Graham's case illustrates the power of individual stories to shape wider perceptions and ultimately public policies.
Author: United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service Publisher: ISBN: Category : Capital punishment Languages : en Pages : 68
Author: Carol S. Steiker Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674974832 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 320
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Refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the U.S. has attempted to reform and rationalize capital punishment through federal constitutional law. While execution chambers remain active in several states, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue that the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment.
Author: Marion Vannier Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198827822 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 241
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A critical, theoretical, and empirical examination of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is long overdue. This book presents a unique case study of the 'normalization' of LWOP. More specifically, it explores the ties between LWOP's normalization and death penalty abolitionism, using California as a case study. Drawing on rich empirical research, it brings together relevant literature in criminology, the sociology of punishment, social policy, and sentencing to provide insights into the nature of American penal politics, the role of progressive pressure groups, and the relationship between life imprisonment and capital punishment. This study investigates the extent to which members of civil society who challenge capital punishment (lawyers, non-profit organizations, and lobbyists) have helped normalize LWOP by fostering the belief that it is humane and merciful. The monograph focuses on three domains where anti-death penalty activists have lobbied, campaigned, pled for, and agreed to LWOP; Congress, the political sphere, and courtrooms. For each domain, the book teases out the motivations of the main actors and agencies involved. It analyses the constraints under which they considered themselves to be operating, and the relationship between these motivations and the broad social, legal, and political environment in which they unfolded. Particular attention is paid to actors' understandings of the concepts of 'life' and 'death' in punishment.
Author: Rachel Sommerville Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 1742241301 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 217
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Marquis is accused of involvement in the murder of a man from a rival neighbourhood. Darren has been found guilty of murdering a petrol station attendant. Charles has been charged with the murder of a homeless teenage girl. All of them are potentially facing the death penalty in California. Australian-born Rachel Sommerville is a private investigator whose job is to help lawyers convince a jury or appeal court to let these men live. Her search for the evidence that may stop the imposition of a death sentence takes her to some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the US. California P.I. is Sommerville’s passionate account of the men whose lives she tries to save and of her journey from genteel, middle-class Adelaide to the ghettos and prisons of America.
Author: Austin Sarat Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107155487 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 193
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This book examines the meaning and significance of finality in capital cases, deploying various theories and perspectives to open up the meaning and significance of the death penalty's finality to scholarly inquiry.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309254167 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 144
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Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.
Author: Sheila O’Hare
Author: Sheila O’Hare
Author: Eual Blansett
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Author: Kathleen A. Cairns
Author: United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service
Author: Carol S. Steiker
Author: Marion Vannier
Author: Rachel Sommerville
Author: Austin Sarat
Author: National Research Council