Killing History: The Effect of Slavery and WWII on the Death Penalty in America and Europe

Author

Julie Turley

Date of Award

Spring 2009

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Global Honors

First Advisor

Rob Crawford

Abstract

The author examines the cultural and social factors that have impacted the United States’s and European Union’s opposing stances on capital punishment. Particular focus is paid to the United States’s history of race relations and views on economic inequality and to the influence of World War II on the EU’s human rights and welfare policies. The paper concludes with a discussion on how the US may enact its own path to abolition.

Recommended Citation

Turley, Julie, "Killing History: The Effect of Slavery and WWII on the Death Penalty in America and Europe" (2009). Global Honors Theses. 3.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/gh_theses/3