(Source: Routledge)
Routledge has just published a book on the
relationship between the abolitionist movement for slavery and the death
penalty.
ABOUT THE BOOK
It has long been acknowledged that the death
penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country’s
history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the
lesser-explored relationship between the two practices’ respective abolitionist
movements. The book explains how the historical and conceptual links between
slavery and capital punishment have both helped and hindered efforts to end
capital punishment. The comparative study also sheds light on the nature of
such efforts, and offers lessons for how death penalty abolitionism should
proceed in future. Using the history of slavery and abolition, it is argued
that anti-death penalty efforts should be premised on the ideologies of the
radical slavery abolitionists.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter
1: The death penalty in the era of slavery
Chapter
2: Capital punishment and the legacy of slavery: 1865–1976
Chapter
3: The legacy of slavery in capital punishment since 1976
Chapter
4: Abolitionism defined
Chapter
5: Radical abolitionist constitutionalism
Chapter
6: The experiential abolitionist
Chapter
7: Abolitionism and "alternatives"
Chapter
8: Non-complicity and abolitionism: from fugitive slaves to lethal injections
Chapter
9: A peculiar abolition
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