The death penalty today. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert M. Bohm.
• Other Names: Bohm, Robert M
• Contents: Pt 1. Miscarriages of justice and innocence -- Pt 2. Death penalty opinion, media access to executions, consensual executions, and the relationship between lynching and the death penalty. Errors in capital cases and what can be done about them -- Scrutinizing the death penalty : state death penalty study commissions and their recommendations -- Themes of wrongful executions in the post-Furman era -- Making it work : compensation for the wrongfully convicted -- A painless cocktail? The lethal injection controversy -- Assessing scholarly opinion of capital punishment : the experts speak -- Police managers' attitudes toward capital punishment -- The United States can't televise an execution because it will make condemned men feel bad about the death penalty : issues raised by the suit to make McVeigh's execution public -- "Let's do it!" : an analysis of consensual executions -- Some hypotheses about capital punishment and lynching.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, Fla : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 345.73/0773; Capital punishment -- United States; Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; LAW -- Criminal Law -- General; Capital punishment; Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects; Todesstrafe; Strafjustiz; United States; USA; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420070125; 1420070126
• Related ISBNs: 9781420070118; 1420070118
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.