{"product_id":"the-slow-death-of-the-todd-c-peppers-9781479819638","title":"The Slow Death of the Death Penalty: Toward a Postmortem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy the death penalty is in decline across the United States\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight states that still have the death penalty, eight have not had an execution in over a decade. And public support for the death penalty has declined from 80% of the surveyed population in the early 1990s to approximately 50% today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the death penalty slowly withers away, Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, and Mary Welek Atwell bring together a number of distinguished death-penalty scholars, activists, and attorneys to take an accounting of the damage inflicted by the machinery of death. Contributors to the book point to a range of different pathologies which have caused politicians and voters to turn against capital punishment, from unacceptable rates of false convictions and racially motivated prosecutions, to a clemency process poisoned by political factors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssay topics include various dimensions of the death penalty, including racial and gender bias; economic costs; the conviction of juveniles, the mentally ill, and the factually innocent; Supreme Court decisions; and the failure of the death penalty to serve as a deterrent against crime. This important volume is an up-to-date accounting of the current state and, as the contributors argue, the future demise of the death penalty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Todd C. Peppers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479819638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479819638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Todd C. Peppers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001563988223,"sku":"9781479819638","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b22d7b9-27fe-4602-98f3-0ad078271046.jpg?v=1751601452","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-slow-death-of-the-todd-c-peppers-9781479819638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}