Capital punishment
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Capital punishment
（Historical guides to controversial issues in America）
Greenwood, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This balanced approach to legal precedent and moral argument regarding the death penalty presents the evidence so readers can reach their own informed conclusions.
Capital Punishment examines the debate around the death penalty, raising questions and attempting to provide an even-handed examination of this controversial practice. The authors combine analysis of important issues with excerpts from landmark legal decisions, important documents, survey results, and empirical data.
The first part of the book discusses the origins of the death penalty and traces its development from antiquity to contemporary times. Detailed statistical information about capital punishment is presented and discussed, and the death penalty is considered against a constitutional backdrop with various arguments-for and against-articulated. The second part of the book consists of three appendices. The first appendix presents an annotated list of important capital-punishment cases; the second supplies a more general chronological treatment of capital punishment; and the third provides a bibliographic essay directing readers to other relevant sources of interest. A thorough and insightful treatment, Capital Punishment provides both a summary of the current state of capital punishment and a discussion of areas of continuing controversy.
Table of Contents
Preface
1 History
2 Facts, Figures, and Methods of Execution
3 The United States Constitution and Capital Punishment
4 Arguments For and Against the Death Penalty
Appendix 1: An Annotated List of Cases: Evolving Standards of Decency and the U.S. Supreme Court's Treatment of Capital Punishment
Appendix 2: Capital Punishment Timeline
Appendix 3: Bibliography and Selected Resources
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
