Capital Punishment

  • Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition
    By William A. Schabas, Peter Hodgkinson

    What are the critical factors that determine whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory but in reality rarely invoke it?

  • Capital Punishment: Criminal Law and Social Evolution
    By Jan Gorecki

    Capital Punishment: Criminal Law and Social Evolution

  • Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System?
    By Lill Scherdin

    This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in the past and present.

  • Capital Punishment: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law
    By Joseph A. Melusky

    Utilizing a rich and varied array of scholarship and primary sources, this work examines historical, political, cultural, and legal factors and developments that have shaped the contours of capital punishment throughout American history.

  • Capital Punishment: A Reference Handbook
    By Michael Kronenwetter

    This revised edition of a perennial bestseller, with more than 50 percent new material, is a much-needed overview of a hotly debated topic.

  • Capital Punishment
    By Cengage Gale, Kim Masters Evans

    The text provides a clear and comprehensive summary of up-to-date research on the topic and is interspersed with the statistical tables, charts, and graphs. Each table is directly referred to and carefully explained in the text.

  • Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual?
    By Information Plus, Tex.)

    Contains primary and secondary source materials, including graphs, charts, quotes, and articles, that provide information about capital punishment in the U.S. and around the world, tracing the history of capital punishment, and discussing ...

  • Capital Punishment: A Documentary and Reference Guide
    By David L. Hudson Jr.

    Each entry in this essential collection of primary resources on capital punishment features an authoritative introduction and analysis that helps provide crucial context for understanding the evolution of law and public attitudes toward the ...

  • Capital Punishment: A Documentary and Reference Guide
    By David L. Hudson Jr.

    Each entry in this essential collection of primary resources on capital punishment features an authoritative introduction and analysis that helps provide crucial context for understanding the evolution of law and public attitudes toward the ...

  • Capital Punishment
    By Alex Feigns

    ... Break something up and be sorry. You broke your truck too, I s'pose?” “My company truck, yes.” “Heh. At least you got a job. What else you broke today? Your wife?” Rick's eye twitched. “As I said, I'm sorry. Let me worry about your ...

  • Capital Punishment
    By McCafferty, James a.

    Capital Punishment

  • Capital Punishment: Is It Defensible? (1865)
    By James Wright, Philander

    Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their ...

  • Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual?
    By Information Plus, Tex.), Mei Ling Rein

    A continuing conflict, a history of capital punishment in America -- Cruel and unusual?

  • Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual?
    By John W. Weier

    Presents an overview of capital punishment discussing controversial court cases and legal decisions, death penalty statutes and methods, executions from 1930 to 2003, and public attitudes toward capital punishment.

  • Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty Debate
    By Ted Gottfried

    - These over-100-page titles present the facts and analyze some of the most controversial topics in today's news.- Offers excellent and up-to-date information for reports or debates.- Helps teenagers to...

  • Capital Punishment
    By Duchess Harris, Valerie Bodden

    Capital Punishment examines all aspects of capital punishment in the United States. It discusses the history behind the death penalty in the United States and varying opinions about the ethics of capital punishment.

  • Capital Punishment: An Effective Punishment?
    By Mei Ling Rein

    Provides current information on America's minorities. Includes data from government agencies and research institutions, and covers employment, income, families and living arrangements, education, crime, health issues, and voting trends.