The Slow Death of the Death Penalty – Toward a Postmortem Peppers Almallen

The Slow Death of the Death PenaltyToward a Postmortem\nAuthor(s): Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, Mary Welek Atwell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479819638, 978-1479819638\nSynopsis\nWhy the death penalty is in decline across the United States\n Across 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.\n As 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 dea.