Book
Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment
Bessler examines the Supreme Court’s Eighth Amendment case law and concludes that the death penalty may well be declared unconstitutional in time. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, called the book, “A searing indictment of capital punishment, this pioneering history of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause is destined to reframe America’s death penalty debate.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list International law, Public debate,
