The death penalty today. (©2008)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The death penalty today. (©2008)
- Main Title:
- The death penalty today
- 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.
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