“America’s Death Penalty: Beyond Repair?” examines capital punishment in the U.S. since 1976 through a variety of scholarly essays that look at critical issues such as innocence, race, arbitrariness, and international human rights law. Reknown death penalty expert and law professor Tony Amsterdam notes, “In these essays, some of our most knowledgeable students of capital punishment take a hard, no-nonsense look at how it actually operates and what drives America’s passionate refusal either to come to peace with the death penalty or give it up. Vital reading for whoever would understand why it can function only fitfully, peevishly and perversely.” Edited by Professor Stephen P. Garvey of Cornell Law School, the book contains contributions from Garvey, Ken Armstrong, John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Samuel R. Gross, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Steve Mills, William A. Schabas, Larry Yackle, and Franklin E. Zimring. (Duke University Press, 2003) See Resources.
Citation Guide
- Death Penalty Information Center (2025, March 14). NEW RESOURCE - America’s Death Penalty: Beyond Repair? Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resource-americas-death-penalty-beyond-repair
- Death Penalty Information Center. “NEW RESOURCE - America’s Death Penalty: Beyond Repair?” Last modified March 14, 2025. Accessed October 4, 2026. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resource-americas-death-penalty-beyond-repair.
- Death Penalty Information Center. “NEW RESOURCE - America’s Death Penalty: Beyond Repair?” Death Penalty Information Center, 14 Mar. 2025, https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resource-americas-death-penalty-beyond-repair. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.