Perspective
Nov. 27, 2010
America's Dedication To the Death Penalty
When most of the western world has abandoned the death penalty, why has the U.S. resisted? By David Garland of New York University.
"America's Death Penalty" examines the historical and theoretical assumptions that have underpinned the discussion of capital punishment in the United States today. Edited by leading scholars of crime and justice, these original essays represent an effort to restore the sense of capital punishment as a question caught up in history.
Modes of Capital Punishment
The Death Pe...
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