The Searchlight Series: Courting Death

In the past 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has attempted to reform and rationalize the practice of capital punishment. Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker, sibling co-authors of Courting Death, conclude that the Court has failed to fix the death penalty’s many problems. They also conclude, however, that the Court’s constitutional regulation has sown the seeds for eventual abolition.

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