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
This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in the past and present.
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.
This revised edition of a perennial bestseller, with more than 50 percent new material, is a much-needed overview of a hotly debated topic.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Capital Punishment
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A continuing conflict, a history of capital punishment in America -- Cruel and unusual?
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.
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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.
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