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The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence

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I've received word from Frank Baumgartner that the book is now available.  Here's some of the October post announcing the book and its supporting website:That's the title of a new book that is expected to be available at the end of the year.  It's written by Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna De Boef, and Amber Boydstun.  Professor Baumgartner has created a dynamic website to support the book, containing many links.  I'd urge you to visit the site. The book is available for pre-ordering at this time from Amazon.com. Here's an excerpt from the site:Since 2003 Frank Baumgartner and colleagues have been involved in a project   tracing the changing politics and issue-definitions associated with the death   penalty. The question is to determine the degree to which the new "innocence"   frame is displacing the traditional "morality" frame relating to this issue...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).