The death penalty today /
The death penalty today /
edited by Robert M. Bohm
- Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2008
- xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Errors in capital cases and what can be done about them -- Scrutinizing the death penalty : state death penalty study commissions and their recommendations -- Themes of wrongful executions in the post-Furman era -- Making it work : compensation for the wrongfully convicted -- A painless cocktail? The lethal injection controversy -- Assessing scholarly opinion of capital punishment : the experts speak -- Police managers' attitudes toward capital punishment -- The United States can't televise an execution because it will make condemned men feel bad about the death penalty : issues raised by the suit to make McVeigh's execution public --'Let's do it!' : an analysis of consensual executions -- Some hypotheses about capital punishment and lynching
9781420070118 (alk. paper) RM267.11 1420070118 (alk. paper)
Capital punishment--United States
Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States
Includes bibliographical references and index
Errors in capital cases and what can be done about them -- Scrutinizing the death penalty : state death penalty study commissions and their recommendations -- Themes of wrongful executions in the post-Furman era -- Making it work : compensation for the wrongfully convicted -- A painless cocktail? The lethal injection controversy -- Assessing scholarly opinion of capital punishment : the experts speak -- Police managers' attitudes toward capital punishment -- The United States can't televise an execution because it will make condemned men feel bad about the death penalty : issues raised by the suit to make McVeigh's execution public --'Let's do it!' : an analysis of consensual executions -- Some hypotheses about capital punishment and lynching
9781420070118 (alk. paper) RM267.11 1420070118 (alk. paper)
Capital punishment--United States
Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States