Download Full eBooks in PDF
Foreigners On America S Death Row Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Foreigners On America S Death Row book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : John Quigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108428231
Investigates how foreigners charged with capital murder in the United States are deprived of rights by police and courts.
Author : Amnesty International USA.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Alien criminals
ISBN : UVA:X004438593
Author : Jorge G. Castañeda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190224493
"Foreigners have been writing about the United States ever since its foundation. Now it is my turn. But please don't hold this against me: the United States itself is at fault. Like a great many people on earth, I've long been fascinated by this remarkable phenomenon which calls itself America. My fate -or perhaps good fortune- has been that of a foreigner who for half a century lived the American experience-as a child, as a student, as an author, as a recurrent visitor and as a university professor. Being Mexican places me in a special category: having lost half its territory to the United States in the 19th century, having found itself caught up in the maelstrom of America's current identity crisis, Mexico can never ignore what happens north of the border. Further, while serving as Mexico's Foreign Minister from 2000 to 2003, I had the privilege of peeping inside the machinery of power that makes this great nation tick. That said, this book is not written from a Mexican perspective but rather from that of a sympathetic foreign critic who has seen the United States from both inside and outside. And its hope is to contribute something to how Americans view themselves and are viewed by the world. Before embarking on this journey, I naturally looked back at some of my forebears, earlier foreigners who were drawn to visit or live in the United States and who then went on to offer their version of America to their home readers. Some like the French traveler Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the early 19th century classic, Democracy in America, felt European nations had much to learn from the American democratic experiment. Others like Charles Dickens left dismayed by what he considered to be the country's singular obsession with money. But they are just two of dozens who have tried-and continue to try- to find a magic key that unlocks the complexities and contradictions of American society. Indeed, it is as if the United States seeks to challenge foreign writers to explain it, confident they will fail. And in taking it on, these outsiders have variously experienced frustration, hope, anger, excitement, disappointment and enlightenment- but never indifference"--
Author : Mugambi Jouet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520966468
Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how does American exceptionalism explain these social changes? In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sex, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war. Raised in Paris by a French mother and Kenyan father, Jouet then lived in the Bible Belt, Manhattan, and beyond. Drawing inspiration from Alexis de Tocqueville, he wields his multicultural sensibility to parse how the intense polarization of U.S. conservatives and liberals has become a key dimension of American exceptionalism—an idea widely misunderstood as American superiority. While exceptionalism once was a source of strength, it may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. history, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave conflicts. They also shed light on the intriguing ideological evolution of American conservatism, which long predated Trumpism. Anti-intellectualism, conspiracy-mongering, a visceral suspicion of government, and Christian fundamentalism are far more common in America than the rest of the Western world—Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Exceptional America dissects the American soul, in all of its peculiar, clashing, and striking manifestations.
Author : James S. Liebman,Shawn Crowley,Andrew Markquart,Lauren Rosenberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780231167239
In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and found that DeLuna almost certainly was innocent. They discovered that no one had cared enough about either the defendant or the victim to make sure the real perpetrator was found. Everything that could go wrong in a criminal case did. This book documents DeLunaÕs conviction, which was based on a single, nighttime, cross-ethnic eyewitness identification with no corroborating forensic evidence. At his trial, DeLunaÕs defense, that another man named Carlos had committed the crime, was not taken seriously. The lead prosecutor told the jury that the other Carlos, Carlos Hernandez, was a ÒphantomÓ of DeLunaÕs imagination. In upholding the death penalty on appeal, both the state and federal courts concluded the same thing: Carlos Hernandez did not exist. The evidence the Columbia team uncovered reveals that Hernandez not only existed but was well known to the police and prosecutors. He had a long history of violent crimes similar to the one for which DeLuna was executed. Families of both Carloses mistook photos of each for the other, and HernandezÕs violence continued after DeLuna was put to death. This book and its website (thewrongcarlos.net) reproduce law-enforcement, crime lab, lawyer, court, social service, media, and witness records, as well as court transcripts, photographs, radio traffic, and audio and videotaped interviews, documenting one of the most comprehensive investigations into a criminal case in U.S. history. The result is eye-opening yet may not be unusual. Faulty eyewitness testimony, shoddy legal representation, and prosecutorial misfeasance continue to put innocent people at risk of execution. The principal investigators conclude with novel suggestions for improving accuracy among the police, prosecutors, forensic scientists, and judges.
Author : Petra Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004124217
This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.
Author : Alan Mygatt-Tauber
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700633616
In 1993, José Medellín, an eighteen-year-old Mexican national who lived most of his life in the United States, was arrested for his participation in the gang rape and murder of two girls in Houston, Texas. Despite telling police that he was born in Mexico, he was never informed of his right to contact the Mexican Consulate, a right guaranteed to him by Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The Mexican government filed suit against the United States in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ruled that the United States had violated the rights of both Mexico and Medellín, along with fifty-one other Mexican nationals in other cases. The ICJ instructed the United States to provide “review and reconsideration” of the convictions and sentences of the fifty-two Mexican nationals. Armed with this new decision, Medellín sought a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied by the lower courts. He petitioned for a writ of certiorari, which the Supreme Court granted, twice. While President George W. Bush sided with the ICJ, the State of Texas, under Solicitor General Ted Cruz, argued against the president. Despite a nearly universal belief among court watchers and legal scholars that Texas would lose, the Court in a 6–3 decision ruled in favor of Texas and against Medellín in June 2008. Medellín was executed just two months later. In this volume Alan Mygatt-Tauber tells the story of Medellín v. Texas, showing how the Court’s 2008 ruling grappled with the complex question of how a united republic that respects the dual sovereignty of its constituent parts struggles to comply with its international obligations. But this is also a story of international human rights and the anomalous position of the United States regarding the death penalty compared to other nations. In the closing chapters, the author explores the aftermath of the execution, including the continued effort of Mexico to seek justice for its nationals. Mygatt-Tauber offers a detailed examination of the case at every stage of proceedings—trial, appeal, at the International Court of Justice, and in both trips to the Supreme Court. He provides never-before-revealed information about the thinking of the Bush White House in the decision to comply with the ICJ’s judgment and to withdraw from the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention that granted the ICJ jurisdiction.
Author : Alan William Clarke,Laurelyn Whitt
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1555536824
A study of the increasing international opposition to and growing domestic disaffection from the death penalty in America
Author : Ivan Šimonović
Publisher : UN
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9211542154
Capital punishment is irrevocable. It prohibits the correction of mistakes by the justice system and leaves no room for human error, with the gravest of consequences. There is no evidence of a deterrent effect of the death penalty. Those sacrificed on the altar of retributive justice are almost always the most vulnerable. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the discriminatory application of the death penalty, wrongful convictions, proven lack of deterrence effect, to legality of the capital punishment under international law and the morality of taking of human life.
Author : Oliver Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 190952137X
Author : Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 0914031015
Author : John H. Blume,Jordan M. Steiker
Publisher : Foundation Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 1599413434
Softbound - New, softbound print book.
Author : Rufus Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Missions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041292207
Author : Donald A. Cabana
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1555533566
A Season of Change
Author : Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 0971544905