New Book of Interest: The “Slow Death” of U.S. Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center

New Book of Interest: The “Slow Death” of U.S. Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center

The death penal­ty in the Unites States is expe­ri­enc­ing what schol­ars call a ​“slow death.” In their forth­com­ing book, ​“The Slow Death of the Death Penalty: Toward a Postmortem,” edi­tors Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, and Mary Welek Atwell bring togeth­er death penal­ty experts to exam­ine this shift in the use of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. New death sen­tences and exe­cu­tions still occur in a lim­it­ed num­ber of states; but Peppers et …