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Former Justice John Paul Stevens Criticizes Death Penalty. On the Death Sentence by John Paul Stevens. Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition by David Garland Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $35.00 David Garland is a well-respected sociologist and legal scholar who taught courses on crime and punishment at the University of Edinburgh before relocating to the United States over a decade ago.
His recent Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition is the product of his attempt to learn “why the United States is such an outlier in the severity of its criminal sentencing.”