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vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Toward and Beyond the 1 Abolition of Capital Punishment Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat Part I. Assessing the Prospects for Abolition 1 The Executioner’s Waning Defenses 19 Michael L. Radelet 2 Blinded by Science on the Road to Abolition? 46 Simon A. Cole and Jay D. Aronson 3 Abolition in the United States by 2050: 72 On Political Capital and Ordinary Acts of Resistance Bernard E. Harcourt 4 The Beginning of the End? 97 Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker 5 Rocked but Still Rolling: 139 The Enduring Institution of Capital Punishment in Historical and Comparative Perspective Michael McCann and David T. Johnson Part II. Debating Lethal Injection 6 For Execution Methods Challenges, 183 the Road to Abolition Is Paved with Paradox Deborah W. Denno viii Contents 7 Perfect Execution: Abolitionism and the Paradox of Lethal Injection 215 Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn 8 “No Improvement over Electrocution or Even a Bullet”: Lethal Injection and the Meaning of Speed and Reliability in the Modern Execution Process 252 Jürgen Martschukat Part III. Putting the Death Penalty in Context 9 Torture, War, and Capital Punishment: Linkages and Missed Connections 281 Robin Wagner-Pacifici 10 Making Difference: Modernity and the Political Formations of Death 319 Peter Fitzpatrick About the Contributors 349 Index 353 ...

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