{"id":1422,"date":"2012-05-01T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2012-05-01T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:50:36","slug":"death-penalty-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/05\/01\/death-penalty-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Penalty in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by codepinkphoenix on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47863643@N04\/5591501692\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5105\/5591501692_4149478efe_m.jpg\" alt=\"Abolish Death Penalty April 4 2011 Janet Valder 003\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by codepinkphoenix via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Office Hours Team recently sat down with Dr. David Garland, professor of sociology and law at New York University.\u00a0 He spoke with the team about his most recent book, <em>Peculiar Institution: America\u2019s Death Penalty in the Age of Abolition.\u00a0 <\/em>The podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2012\/04\/27\/david-garland-on-the-death-penalty\/\">found here<\/a>, would be a great assignment, as it provides a concise review of key arguments he makes in the book.\u00a0 Below are a few discussion questions you could use in class or assign with the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0 In Garland\u2019s eyes, why is the death penalty a peculiar U.S. institution?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0 What reasons are usually given in favor of the death penalty in the U.S., and what does Garland think about them?<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0 Are there patterns found among defendants on death row?<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have an opinion about the use of the death penalty in the U.S.?\u00a0 If so, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0 What is one thing you learned from this podcast?<\/p>\n<p><em>If the questions are assigned as homework:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6)\u00a0\u00a0 Conduct some quick online research.\u00a0 When did states start outlawing the death penalty?\u00a0 How many states allow it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office Hours Team recently sat down with Dr. David Garland, professor of sociology and law at New York University.\u00a0 He spoke with the team about his most recent book, Peculiar Institution: America\u2019s Death Penalty in the Age of Abolition.\u00a0 The podcast, found here, would be a great assignment, as it provides a concise review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,2576,455,838],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-death-penalty","tag-punishment","tag-readings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2012\/05\/death-penalty-featured-image.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}