Death penalty on trial a handbook with cases, laws, and documents
Title:
Death penalty on trial a handbook with cases, laws, and documents
Author:
Gershman, Gary P.
ISBN:
9781851096114
9781851096060
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Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 v.)
Series:
ABC-CLIO's On trial series
On trial.
Contents:
Introduction -- Historical background -- Cases -- Impact and legacy -- Documents -- Key people, laws, and concepts.
Abstract:
This handbook sifts through the rhetoric, politics and emotion that characterize one of the most discussed, yet least understood issues in 21st century America. Placing the death penalty in a historical perspective, this introduction explains the legal theory that has perpetuated it.
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