A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselve
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| Title | : | A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.52 (347 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393348962 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-04 |
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Editorial : From Booklist For 200 years, capital punishment had been widely accepted and assumed constitutional, until a U.S. Supreme Court justice raised the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. In 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk, Alan Dershowitz, launched a campaign to argue that the death penalty was a violation of the Eighth Amendment. They were ultimately joined by the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, earning a victory in 1972 when the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law and toppling similar laws in the other 40 states with capital punishment. States responded with mandatory sentencing until 1976, when Robert Bork successfully argued for reinstatement and the court reversed itself. Legal scholar Mandery spent four years researching archives and interviewing law clerks and litigators to offer a dramatic, behind-the-scenes look at the long, slow journey to get the issue heard, its success, and the journey to reversal of judgment. He portrays the compl
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Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history. For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage wa
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