No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States (Law Society & Politics in the Midwest)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821418343 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Specialists who already know the broad outlines will be interested in learning the Ohio story, and for nonspecialists, the book will be an engaging introduction to the subject.” —Stuart Banner, author of The Death Penalty: An American History. “The book is beautifully written
His analysis concludes that the current law, crafted by lawmakers to punish the worst of the state’s killers, doesn’t come close to its intended purpose and instead varies widely in its implementation. This exploration of the law of capital punishment and its application will appeal to students of criminal justice as well as those with an interest in law and public policy.. By the first decade of the new century, Ohio was second only to Texas in the number of people put to death each year. Andrew Welsh-Huggins’s work is the only comprehensive study of the history of the death penalty in Ohio. Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Welsh-Huggins takes on this controversial topic evenhandedly and with respect for the humanity of the accused and the victim alike. No Winners Here Tonight looks at this trend and determines that capital punishment has been carried out in an uneven fashion from its earliest days, with outcomes based not on blind justice but on the color of a person’s skin, the whim of a local prosecutor, or the biases of the jury pool in the county in which a crime was committed. In 1958, just
Regardless of your position - a must read. Not knowing much pertaining to Ohio's capital punishment laws, I was surprised of the outcomes of numerous trials depending on what area of the state the trial took place. This book not only gives a detailed look at the history of capital punishment in Ohio but also gives an excellent account of specific cases. What was most intriguing to me about the book was the amount of details including interviews with judges, lawmakers