The Story of Cruel and Unusual |
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| Author:
| Dayan, Colin |
| Series title: | Boston Review Bks. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-262-26058-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Publisher: | MIT Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.
A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.