Ethical issues: capital punishment books

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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty

Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's...
Author: Austin Sarat ISBN: 9780804789165 Format: Hardback	$59.99
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890... Read More >>

Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System?

Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal...
Author: Lill Scherdin ISBN: 9781409457190 Format: Hardback	$336.00
Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding... Read More >>

Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory

Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience,...
Author: Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex, UK) ISBN: 9780415622448 Format: Hardback	$336.00
Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived... Read More >>

Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives

Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives...
Author: Austin Sarat (Amherst College, Massachusetts) , Jürgen Martschukat ISBN: 9781107634275 Format: Paperback	$82.80
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Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study of the World

Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study...
Author: Carsten Anckar (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) ISBN: 9780415860116 Format: Paperback	$96.99
This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural,... Read More >>

The Death Penalty, Volume I

The Death Penalty, Volume I
Author: Jacques Derrida (?cole Pratique des Hautes-?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) , Peggy Kamuf ISBN: 9780226144320 Format: Hardback	$67.95
While much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively,... Read More >>

The Death Penalty in Japan: Will the Public Tolerate Abolition?

The Death Penalty in Japan: Will the Public Tolerate...
Author: Mai Sato ISBN: 9783658006778 Format: Paperback	$116.41
This book examines public attitudes to the death penalty in Japan, focusing on knowledge and trust-based attitudinal... Read More >>

Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion

Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights,...
Author: Roger Hood, QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Roger (Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, University of Oxford and Emeritus fellow) , Surya Deva (Associate Professor, School of Law, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong) ISBN: 9780199685776 Format: Hardback	$283.00
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Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure

Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure...
Author: Jody Lyneé Madeira ISBN: 9781479856671 Format: Paperback	$64.99
Demonstrates the importance of understanding what closure really is before naively asserting it can or has been... Read More >>

The Death Penalty in the United States: A Complete Guide to Federal and State Laws, 2d ed.

The Death Penalty in the United States: A Complete Guide...
Author: Louis J. Palmer, Jr. ISBN: 9780786476602 Format: Paperback	$131.87
""This new edition includes 13 new chapters. Areas covered by some of the new chapters include Capital felon's defense... Read More >>

Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment

Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment...
Author: Paul Kaplan ISBN: 9780739188163 Format: Paperback	$70.95
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The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy: How Foreign Nations and International Organizations Influence U.S. Policy

The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy: How Foreign Nations...
Author: Wesley Kendall , Joseph M. Siracusa ISBN: 9781442224346 Format: Hardback	$115.95
The Death Penalty and U.S. Diplomacy analyzes the institutional response to specific forms of foreign intervention... Read More >>

Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America

Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America...
Author: Clive Stafford Smith ISBN: 9780099572190 Format: Paperback	$39.99
Shortlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize. THE STORY CONTINUES: TWO NEW CHAPTERS FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION In 1986,... Read More >>

Hanged at Durham

Hanged at Durham
Author: Steve Fielding ISBN: 9780750947503 Format: Paperback	$39.99
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The Violence of Victimhood

The Violence of Victimhood
Author: Diane Enns (UG Program Director, Ryerson University, Ontario) ISBN: 9780271052434 Format: Paperback	$67.99
Analyzes current understandings of victimhood in discussions of child soldiers, identity politics, violent conflict,... Read More >>

Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America

Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing...
Author: Kathleen A. Cairns ISBN: 9780803230095 Format: Hardback	$57.25
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Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions

Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions
Author: Richard A. Stack , Benjamin Todd Jealous ISBN: 9781612341620 Format: Hardback	$79.07
On September 21, 2011, the controversial execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis, who spent twenty years on death... Read More >>

Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases

Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark...
Author: Martin Clancy , Tim O'Brien ISBN: 9781616146481 Format: Hardback	$52.99
In 1969, America's Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was unconstitutional. But the Court's resolve soon... Read More >>

Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty

Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to...
Author: Vicki Schieber , Trudy D. Conway ISBN: 9780814635087 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty comprehensively explores the Catholic stance... Read More >>

The Case for Capital Punishment

The Case for Capital Punishment
Author: Alfred B. Heilbrun Jr. ISBN: 9780761860358 Format: Paperback	$50.95
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Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an...
Author: David Garland ISBN: 9780674066106 Format: Paperback	$68.64
Shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America's political institutions... Read More >>

About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row

About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row
Author: Peter Pringle ISBN: 9781845887605 Format: Paperback	$37.99
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Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure

Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure...
Author: Jody Lyneé Madeira , Bernard Wasow ISBN: 9780814796108 Format: Hardback	$163.00
Demonstrates the importance of understanding what closure really is before naively asserting it can or has been... Read More >>

Deterrence and the Death Penalty

Deterrence and the Death Penalty
Author: National Research Council , Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ISBN: 9780309254168 Format: Paperback	$110.88
Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect... Read More >>

The Violence of Victimhood

The Violence of Victimhood
Author: Diane Enns (UG Program Director, Ryerson University, Ontario) ISBN: 9780271052427 Format: Hardback	$148.00
Analyzes current understandings of victimhood in discussions of child soldiers, identity politics, violent conflict,... Read More >>

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