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Author:   Robert M. Bohm ,  Robert M. Bohm ,  Cathleen Burnett (University of Missouri- Kansas City, USA) ,  Margaret Vandiver (The University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781138463486

ISBN 10:   1138463485
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   13 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Miscarriages of Justice and Innocence. Errors in Capital Cases and What Can Be Done About Them. Scrutinizing the Death Penalty:State Death Penalty Study Commissions andTheir 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. Death Penalty Opinion, Media Access to Executions, Consensual Executions, and the Relationship between Lynching and the Death Penalty. 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. Index.

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""" … when established authorities like Robert Bohm come out with a new book, death penalty scholars know it belongs on their reading lists."" —Michael L. Radelet, University of Colorado, Boulder, writing in Criminal Justice Review"

... when established authorities like Robert Bohm come out with a new book, death penalty scholars know it belongs on their reading lists. -Michael L. Radelet, University of Colorado, Boulder, writing in Criminal Justice Review

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