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The bitter fruit of American justice : international and domestic resistance to the death penalty

Print Book, English, ©2007
Northeastern University Press ; Published by University Press of New England, Boston, Hanover [NH], ©2007
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
9781555536824, 1555536824
153598387
Human rights and the erosion of absolute sovereignty
Extradition : holding the United States to a higher human rights standard
Honoring treaty commitments : the Vienna Convention on consular relations
Death penalty myths : science confronts conventional wisdom
Attitudes toward capital punishment : do facts matter?
Executing the innocent
The moral potency of the innocence argument
The imperfectability of the system