Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition

ISBN-13: 9781472452740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Bharat Malkani

Opis

This book compares the movement to abolish slavery in pre-Civil War America with the contemporary movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States. The purpose of this comparative study is to set out what today's death penalty abolitionists can learn from the successes and failures of those who worked to abolish slavery. An interdisciplinary approach is taken to compare legal and political efforts to abolish slavery and the death penalty. Further, since lawyers and politicians respond to the public mood, and vice versa, attention is also paid to the cultural and social conditions in which slavery abolitionists operated, and in which today's death penalty abolitionists currently operate. An interdisciplinary approach is necessary because legal, political and cultural abolitionist efforts do not operate in a vacuum, and thus the different strands of abolitionism need to be considered holistically.

O autorze

Dr Bharat Malkani researches and teaches in the field of capital punishment, and human rights and criminal justice more broadly. He is a member of the International Academic Network for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, and prior to joining academia he helped co-ordinate efforts to abolish the death penalty for persons under the age of 18 in America.