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Race, Class, And The Death Penalty : Capital Punishment In American History

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Wretched Sisters : Examining Gender And Capital Punishment

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The Fairer Death : Executing Women In Ohio

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Execution : The Guillotine, The Pendulum, The Thousand Cuts, The Spanish Donkey, And 66 Other Ways Of Putting Someone To Death

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Death Penalty On Trial : A Handbook With Cases, Laws, And Documents

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Rough Justice : Lynching And American Society, 1874-1947

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Arbitrary And Capricious : The Supreme Court, The Constitution, And The Death Penalty

  • Arbitrary And Capricious : The Supreme Court, The Constitution, And The Death Penalty

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    Michael A. Foley

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    Book, Praeger, 2003

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    Justice Marshall once remarked that if people knew what he knew about the death penalty, they would reject it overwhelmingly. Furman clarified that any new death penalty legislation must contain sentencing procedures that avoid the arbitrary infliction of a life-ending verdict, which led to the current complex tangle of issues surrounding the death penalty and its constitutional viability. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  KF9227.C2 F65 2003  AVAILABLE

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The Hangman’s Knot : Lynching, Legal Execution, And America’s Struggle With The Death Penalty

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Justice Denied : Clemency Appeals In Death Penalty Cases

  • Justice Denied : Clemency Appeals In Death Penalty Cases

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    Cathleen Burnett

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    Book, Northeastern University Press, 2002

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    Sobered by mounting evidence of wrongful convictions in capital cases, both death penalty advocates and abolitionists are calling for a moratorium on executions in the United States. Focusing on executive clemency petitions, the final hope for death row inmates, Cathleen Burnett exposes troubling flaws in the legal process of administering the death penalty. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  KFM8365.C2 B87 2002  AVAILABLE

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The Death Penalty : An American History

  • The Death Penalty : An American History

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    Stuart Banner

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    Book, Harvard University Press, 2002

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    The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Law professor Stuart Banner tells the story of how, over four centuries, dramatic changes have taken place in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ironically, as it has become a quiet, sanitary, technological procedure, the death penalty is as divisive as ever. The Death Penalty is invaluable in understanding the American way of the ultimate punishment. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HV8699.U5 B367 2002  AVAILABLE

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The Electric Chair : An Unnatural American History

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Capital Punishment In The United States : A Documentary History

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The Death Penalty : An Historical And Theological Survey

  • The Death Penalty : An Historical And Theological Survey

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    by James J. Megivern

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    Book, Paulist Press, 1997

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    Using a chronological and historical approach, he explores the development of the death penalty through early, medieval and modern periods, following elements of its history throughout Europe. Megivern explores the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ rejection of the death penalty, which coincides with its escalation in favor in U.S. public opinion polls. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  K5104 .M44 1997  AVAILABLE

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The Hanging Tree : Execution And The English People 1770- 1868

  • The Hanging Tree : Execution And The English People 1770- 1868

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    V.A.C. Gatrell

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 1994

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    Some thirty-five thousand people were condemned to death in England and Wales between 1770 and 1830, and seven thousand were ultimately executed, the majority convicted of crimes such as burglary, horse theft, or forgery. Indeed, crowds of three to seven thousand were normal, and for famous cases, the mob could swell to fifty thousand or more (a hundred thousand were said to have watched the hanging of murderers Holloway and Haggarty–so great a throng that thirty spectators were crushed to death). But ultimately, Gatrell contends, it was the unleashed passions of the scaffold crowd the unsettled the middle class: the crowd mirrored the state’s violence too candidly and gave the lie to middle-class pretensions of civility and humanity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HV8699.G8 G38 1994  AVAILABLE

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Hanging In Judgment : Religion And The Death Penalty In England

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