NEW RESOURCE — America’s Death Penalty: Beyond Repair?

​“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.