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The death penalty : what's keeping it alive /
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 analyses why the death penalty remains active in most states in spite of well-documented flaws in the j...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.