Ethical issues: capital punishment books

212 books were found.

Dont Shoot Im The Guitar Man

Dont Shoot Im The Guitar Man

Author: Buzzy Martin
ISBN: 9780425240052
Format: Book
$49.99

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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: 9780674057234
Format: Hardback
$92.40

The US death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition...  Read More >>

Ultimate Sanction: Understanding the Death Penalty Through Its Many Voices and Many Sides

Ultimate Sanction: Understanding the Death Penalty Through...

Author: Robert M. Bohm
ISBN: 9781607140580
Format: Hardback
$65.87

A unique approach to one of the most divisive and galvanizing subjects of our time: capital punishmentFor nearly...  Read More >>

The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber

The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas...

Author: Scott Christianson
ISBN: 9780520271210
Format: Paperback
$49.95

First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight...  Read More >>

The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber

The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas...

Author: Scott Christianson
ISBN: 9780520255623
Format: Hardback
$104.95

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Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective

Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in...

Author: A. Hammel
ISBN: 9780230231986
Format: Hardback
$154.00

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The Practice of Execution in Canada

The Practice of Execution in Canada

Author: Ken Leyton-Brown
ISBN: 9780774817530
Format: Hardback
$248.16

The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.  Read More >>

Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the...

Author: David M. Oshinsky
ISBN: 9780700617111
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the...

Author: David M. Oshinsky
ISBN: 9780700617104
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Takes a fresh look at the Supreme Court's controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment - in the...  Read More >>

I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life like Mine

I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life like Mine

Author: David Chura
ISBN: 9780807000649
Format: Hardback
$65.87

A nonfiction work of narrative essays about juveniles sentenced to adult prison, giving a human face not only to...  Read More >>

Killing Time: One Man's Race To Stop An Execution

Killing Time: One Man's Race To Stop An Execution

Author: David Dow
ISBN: 9781741669459
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Both a haunting memoir and a gripping legal thriller, this is the story of David Dow, a Texas Death Row Attorney,...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment Global Viewpoints

Capital Punishment Global Viewpoints

Author: Noah Berlatsky
ISBN: 9780737746631
Format: Paperback
$67.27

This volume aspects of capital punishment as it is practiced internationally, anf on opposing viewpoints of the...  Read More >>

Why We Kill: Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines

Why We Kill: Understanding Violence Across Cultures...

Author: Nancy Loucks ,  Sally Smith Holt
ISBN: 9781904750420
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment...

Author: Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ,  Austin Sarat
ISBN: 9780814762189
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Discusses how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the debate over lethal injection...  Read More >>

The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment...

Author: Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ,  Austin Sarat
ISBN: 9780814762172
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Discusses how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the debate over lethal injection...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Author: James A. McCafferty ,  James A. McCafferty
ISBN: 9780202363288
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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A Life for a Life: The American Debate Over the Death Penalty

A Life for a Life: The American Debate Over the Death...

Author: Michael Dow Burkhead
ISBN: 9780786433681
Format: Paperback
$46.00

Offering a look at the intense public debate surrounding the death penalty in the United States, this book explores...  Read More >>

Hanged at Lincoln

Hanged at Lincoln

Author: Stephen Wade
ISBN: 9780750951104
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking...

Author: James D. Slack
ISBN: 9781412810210
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Focuses on the relationship between public morality and personal action in the American political community. This...  Read More >>

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Author: Andrew Reynolds (Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
ISBN: 9780199544554
Format: Hardback
$250.95

Andrew Reynolds provides the first detailed consideration of how Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts....  Read More >>

No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country’s Busiest Death Penalty States

No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography...

Author: Andrew Welsh-Huggins ,  Paul Finkelman
ISBN: 9780821418345
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment...  Read More >>

No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country’s Busiest Death Penalty States

No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography...

Author: Andrew Welsh-Huggins ,  Paul Finkelman
ISBN: 9780821418338
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment...  Read More >>

Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications

Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives...

Author: Jon Yorke ,  Professor Austin D. Sarat
ISBN: 9780754674139
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal...  Read More >>

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