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The Death Penalty : What's Keeping It Alive.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442232686
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Death PenaltyDDC classification:
  • 364.660973
LOC classification:
  • HV8699.U5 -- .L96 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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