Lyon, Andrea D. <br/><br/>
The Death Penalty :  What's Keeping It Alive. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (176 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Death Penalty Yesterday and Today -- 2 Moral and Religious Underpinnings of the Death Penalty -- 3 The Media as a Messenger of Death -- 4 The Death Penalty as a Political Tool -- 5 The Failure and Fate of Capital Punishment -- Appendix A: Death Penalty Historical Timeline -- Appendix B: Countries with and without the Death Penalty -- Appendix C: States with and without the Death Penalty -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author. 
<br/><br/> In The Death Penalty: What's Keeping it Alive an award-winning criminal defense attorney turns a critical eye towards the death penalty in America. Filled with gripping case studies, the book analyzes why the death penalty remains active in most states in spite of well-documented flaws in the justice system. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442232686 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8699.U5 -- .L96 2015eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.660973