The Bitter Fruit of American Justice
International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty
Alan W. Clarke, Laurelyn Whitt

Northeastern University Press
University Press of New England



Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction

Human Rights and the Erosion of Absolute Sovereignty
• Extradition: Holding the United States to a Higher Human Rights Standard

Honoring Treaty Commitments: The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
• Death Penalty Myths: Science Confronts Conventional Wisdom
• Attitudes toward Capital Punishment: Do Facts Matter?
• Executing the Innocent
• The Moral Potency of the Innocence Argument
• The Imperfectability of the System
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index




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