TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lyon,Andrea D.
TI  - The Death Penalty: What's Keeping It Alive
SN  - 9781442232686
AV  - HV8699.U5 -- .L96 2015eb 
U1  - 364.660973 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Capital punishment -- United States -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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