Ethical issues: capital punishment books

221 books were found.

Red Record: Tabulated Statistics & Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Red Record: Tabulated Statistics & Alleged Causes of...

Author: Ida B Wells-Barnett ,  Irvine Garland Penn
ISBN: 9781528772365
Format: Hardback
$41.37

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett records statistics concerning instances of lynching and offers vivid descriptions of the...  Read More >>

A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays

A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12...

Author: Marc Bookman
ISBN: 9781620976548
Format: Hardback
$44.99

""Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty...  Read More >>

Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition

Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition...

Author: Bharat Malkani
ISBN: 9780367899035
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Death Penalty: Perspectives from India and Beyond

The Death Penalty: Perspectives from India and Beyond...

Author: Sanjeev P. Sahni ,  Mohita Junnarkar
ISBN: 9789811531316
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book offers a broad overview of public attitudes to the death penalty in India. Based on public opinion surveys,...  Read More >>

Reflections on the Guillotine

Reflections on the Guillotine

Author: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780241475225
Format: Paperback
$16.99

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that...  Read More >>

Railroaded: The true stories of the first 100 people executed in Virginia's electric chair

Railroaded: The true stories of the first 100 people...

Author: Dale M Brumfield
ISBN: 9780578720814
Format: Paperback
$33.51

In 1908, at the height of Jim Crow, Virginia switched from public hanging at local gallows to the electric chair...  Read More >>

River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

Author: Helen Prejean, CSJ
ISBN: 9781529368338
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking.  Read More >>

Narrative Change: How Changing the Story Can Transform Society, Business, and Ourselves

Narrative Change: How Changing the Story Can Transform...

Author: Hans Hansen
ISBN: 9780231184427
Format: Hardback
$45.95

Hans Hansen offers readers a powerful model for creating significant organizational, social, and institutional change....  Read More >>

A Word to My Younger Self

A Word to My Younger Self

Author: Emma DeCaro
ISBN: 9781945419614
Format: Hardback
$51.72

"A collection of personal essays from 35 ""Second Lookers"" - youthful offenders who were sentenced as adults in...  Read More >>

A Word to My Younger Self

A Word to My Younger Self

Author: Emma DeCaro
ISBN: 9781945419607
Format: Paperback
$29.76

A collection of personal essays from 35 Second Lookers - former juvenile offenders who were sentenced as adults...  Read More >>

Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran

Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in...

Author: Arzoo Osanloo
ISBN: 9780691172040
Format: Paperback
$54.99

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right...  Read More >>

Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran

Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in...

Author: Arzoo Osanloo
ISBN: 9780691172033
Format: Hardback
$170.00

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Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed.

Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States,...

Author: Louis J. Palmer, Jr.
ISBN: 9781476683690
Format: Paperback
$135.00

Provides information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. This encyclopedia details virtually every...  Read More >>

Three Last Things: or The Hounding of Carl Jarrold, Soulless Assassin

Three Last Things: or The Hounding of Carl Jarrold,...

Author: Corinna Turner
ISBN: 9781910806562
Format: Paperback
$15.50

Carl Jarrold, convicted assassin, believes there is no such thing as love. Prison chaplain Fr. Jacob has struggled...  Read More >>

Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain

Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and...

Author: Dr James Gregory (Plymouth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350163492
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory here examines...  Read More >>

The Death Penalty: Perspectives from India and Beyond

The Death Penalty: Perspectives from India and Beyond...

Author: Sanjeev P. Sahni ,  Mohita Junnarkar
ISBN: 9789811531286
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book offers a broad overview of public attitudes to the death penalty in India. Based on public opinion surveys,...  Read More >>

Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row

Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row

Author: Tessie Castillo
ISBN: 9781684334445
Format: Paperback
$28.33

Crimson Letters serves up true accounts of brutal prison beatings, botched suicide attempts, tender goodbyes before...  Read More >>

Cruel and Unusual Punishment within Our Prison System

Cruel and Unusual Punishment within Our Prison System...

Author: Kumar Tripati Anant
ISBN: 9781947170230
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Anant Kumar Tripati does not use the traditional methods for writing law reviews in that, he substantially quote...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment in American Courts

Capital Punishment in American Courts

Author: James Whisker ,  Kevin Spiker
ISBN: 9781680532050
Format: Hardback
$256.30

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Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United...

Author: Megan Eatman
ISBN: 9780814255728
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Examines lynching, capital punishment, and torture to investigate how rhetoric and violence work together to sustain...  Read More >>

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United...

Author: Megan Eatman
ISBN: 9780814214343
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Examines lynching, capital punishment, and torture to investigate how rhetoric and violence work together to sustain...  Read More >>

Vengeance: The fight against injustice

Vengeance: The fight against injustice

Author: Pietro Marongiu ,  Graeme R Newman
ISBN: 9780911577006
Format: Paperback
$51.75

"""First edition originally published in the United States of America in 1987 by Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers""--Title...  Read More >>

Comparative Capital Punishment

Comparative Capital Punishment

Author: Carol S. Steiker ,  Jordan M. Steiker
ISBN: 9781786433244
Format: Hardback
$528.25

Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death...  Read More >>

River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

Author: Helen Prejean, CSJ
ISBN: 9781529368314
Format: Hardback
$45.00

The revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking.  Read More >>

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