{"product_id":"courting-death-9780674737426","title":"Courting Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefusing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the most important book about the death penalty for a generation and, likely, ever. Anyone who cares about the state of justice in America should read this book. -- Lincoln Caplan, journalist and Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourting Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and insightful book with a powerful thesis, namely that the death penalty in the United States has been unwittingly regulated to death. It is the most forceful and significant intervention I have read on the question of capital punishment to date, a remarkable contribution to our legal, historical, and political debates. -- Bernard E. Harcourt, author of \u003ci\u003eExposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourting Death\u003c\/i\u003e charts precisely the past and present of what has sadly become a uniquely American dilemma and, most importantly, sets out the doctrinal road map that will likely guide Supreme Court Justices in the future. Written by the most respected capital punishment scholars of the day, it is essential reading. -- Michael Meltsner, author of \u003ci\u003eCruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[The Steikers] provide a clear and comprehensive look at the 40-year modern history of capital punishment in the United States since its reinstatement in 1976…\u003ci\u003eCourting Death \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an excellent survey of the history of capital punishment and the prospects of abolition…The Steikers explain technical legal issues with such clarity that their book is highly accessible to lawyer and layperson alike. -- Stephen Rohde * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eCarol and Jordan Steiker…are the leading contemporary scholars of the death penalty. In \u003ci\u003eCourting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e they have brilliantly defined—in language accessible to the general reader—the massive dysfunction of the current system and the course that a future Supreme Court could take to do away with it. -- Michael Meltsner * Huffington Post *\u003cbr\u003eThe Steikers deliver an extraordinarily well-documented, forceful and ferocious assault on state and federal administration of capital punishment since then. \u003ci\u003eCourting Death\u003c\/i\u003e is, almost certainly, the best book on this subject. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Huffington Post *\u003cbr\u003eCarol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker (sister and brother) have written a revealing book about the history of the death penalty in the U.S. and, in particular, the continued difficulties the Supreme Court has had in attempting to regulate capital punishment so that it conforms to constitutional standards…[An] excellent book. -- Jed S. Rakoff * New York Review of Books *","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403607122263,"sku":"9780674737426","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674737426.jpg?v=1730483972","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/courting-death-9780674737426","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}