Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society

Edited by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware and Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College, US

‘A fluid melding of history, law, and social science, The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society is an essential resource for both advanced scholars and those new to the topic. Sarat and Fleury-Steiner have brought a distinguished group of scholars together to explore the contemporary status of the world’s oldest form of punishment.’

• Contents1 Introduction to the Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society 1Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Austin SaratPART I INFLUENCES2 The case against the American death penalty 7Evan Mandery3 The case for capital punishment 17Joseph M. Bessette and Edward Feser4 The cultural rhetoric of capital punishment in Colonial America throughthe early Republic, 1641–1792 31John Cyril Barton5 Public opinion and capital punishment in the United States 48Cheryl Lero Jonson, William Andrew Stadler and Brooke Miller Gialopsos6 Capital punishment and the constitution 62Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker7 The death penalty as an international human rights concern:developments and challenges 73Sangmin BaePART II PROCESSES8 Capital trials: individualized sentences and generalized biases 88Sarah Beth Kaufman9 Capital defense attorneys 102Maya Pagni Barak and Jon B. Gould10 Juries in capital cases 114Valerie Hans and Amelia Hritz11 Appellate and post-conviction remedies in death cases 127David R. Dow12 Six US execution methods and the disastrous quest for humaneness 137Deborah W. DennoPART III OUTCOMES13 Race and the death penalty 159Diann Rust-Tierney, Barbara O’Brien and Catherine M. Grosso14 Wrong-person error in capital cases 171James S. Liebman15 Death row exonerations: a scoping review 190Amy Shlosberg, Valli Rajah, Michael Horahan and Júlia Malheiros16 Comparing life without parole to the death penalty 208Christopher SeedsPART IV COMPARISONS: AFRICA, ASIA, EUROPE, MEXICO, ANDTHE MIDDLE EAST17 The Myth of the Death Penalty in Egypt: Can It Ever Be Justified? 222Mohamed ‘Arafa18 The death penalty in Botswana and Zimbabwe: a comparative historicalanalysis 235Andrew Novak19 The death penalty in the People’s Republic of China 249Bin Liang and Jinzhou Wang20 Capital punishment in Japan 265Viviana Andreescu21 Capital punishment in the Philippines 275David T. Johnson22 Capital punishment in Vietnam 287Hai Thanh Luong23 Capital punishment in Great Britain 293Lizzie Seal24 Capital punishment in Germany 307Birte Christ25 The death penalty in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe 318Agata Fijalkowski26 Capital punishment in Ireland 331David M. Doyle and Lynsey Black27 The history of the death penalty and its abolition in Mexico 342Patrick Timmons28 The death penalty in Iran 356William Schabas29 The shadow of the death penalty in Israel: constructing enemies,citizens, and victims 368Smadar Ben-Natan