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Deathquest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States, 3rd

The first true textbook on the death penalty, this text provides an exhaustive ...


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Publisher :Anderson Publishing
Format: softcover; 420 pp. , BOOK
ISBN: 9781593453152
2007
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    The first true textbook on the death penalty, this text provides an exhaustive introduction, starting with its history and taking the reader through the facts, issues, opinions and controversies surrounding capital punishment. The author's motivation in this research and work with capital punishment has been to understand what motivates the "deathquest" of the American People, leading a large percentage of the public to support the death penalty. This book will educate readers so that whatever their death penalty opinions are, they are informed ones.


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    Chapter 1 - History of the Death Penalty in the United States: The Pre-Furman Period (1608-1972)

    Chapter 2 - Capital Punishment and the Supreme Court

    Chapter 3 - The Death Penalty at the Federal Level and in the Military, and Globally

    Chapter 4 - Methods of Execution

    Chapter 5 - General Deterrence and the Death Penalty

    Chapter 6 - Incapacitation and Economic Costs of Capital Punishment

    Chapter 7 - Miscarriages of Justice and the Death Penalty

    Chapter 8 - Arbitrariness and Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty

    Chapter 9 - Retribution, Religion, and Capital Punishment

    Chapter 10 - American Death Penalty Opinion

     

    Robert Bohm


     

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