Ethical issues: capital punishment books

205 books were found.

Rikers: An Oral History

Rikers: An Oral History

Author: Graham Rayman ,  Reuven Blau
ISBN: 9780593134214
Format: Hardback
$65.00

"NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE . A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and...  Read More >>

The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion & Punishment in the American South

The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion & Punishment...

Author: Michael Ayers Trotti
ISBN: 9781469670416
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands;...  Read More >>

The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South

The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment...

Author: Michael Ayers Trotti
ISBN: 9781469670409
Format: Hardback
$159.50

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands;...  Read More >>

Punishment A Critical Study of Ethical Theories

Punishment A Critical Study of Ethical Theories

Author: Mallik Anupam
ISBN: 9784935557532
Format: Paperback
$139.70

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The Penalty Is Death: state power, law, and justice

The Penalty Is Death: state power, law, and justice...

Author: Barry Jones
ISBN: 9781922585776
Format: Paperback
$35.00

An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction...  Read More >>

Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator,...

Author: Ellen McGarrahan
ISBN: 9780812988055
Format: Paperback
$50.13

EDGAR AWARD FINALIST • A private investigator revisits the case that has haunted her for decades and sets out on...  Read More >>

Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System...

Author: M Chris Fabricant
ISBN: 9798885780445
Format: Hardback
$87.09

"""From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been...  Read More >>

The Far Side of the Moon: Trials of My Father

The Far Side of the Moon: Trials of My Father

Author: Clive Stafford Smith
ISBN: 9781787301924
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From the renowned human rights lawyer and activist Clive Stafford Smith, The Far Side of the Moon is a deeply personal...  Read More >>

Closing the Slaughterhouse: The Inside Story of Death Penalty Abolition in Virginia

Closing the Slaughterhouse: The Inside Story of Death...

Author: Dale M Brumfield
ISBN: 9780578286860
Format: Paperback
$56.90

"The death penalty was Virginia's longest continuing tradition, dating back to 1608 when Capt. George Kendall was...  Read More >>

The Loop 3: The Arc

The Loop 3: The Arc

Author: Ben Oliver
ISBN: 9781912626571
Format: Paperback
$18.99

Luka Kane was executed in front of a jeering crowd, but before he died, he opened one pair of eyes to the truth:...  Read More >>

Convicts: A Global History

Convicts: A Global History

Author: Clare Anderson (University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9781108814942
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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Convicts: A Global History

Convicts: A Global History

Author: Clare Anderson (University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9781108840729
Format: Hardback
$204.39

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The Death Penalty, Volumes I and II: Influences and Outcomes

The Death Penalty, Volumes I and II: Influences and...

Author: Austin Sarat
ISBN: 9780815397618
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Unsurprisingly, much of the social science research agenda on the death penalty is centered in the United States,...  Read More >>

Notes on the Institution of Punishment and Corrections

Notes on the Institution of Punishment and Corrections...

Author: Monica Solinas-Saunders
ISBN: 9781524978341
Format: Paperback
$143.00

An introductory level text focusing on the issues of punishment, incarceration, and rehabilitation in the United...  Read More >>

Red Record: Tabulated Statistics & Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Red Record: Tabulated Statistics & Alleged Causes of...

Author: Ida B Wells-Barnett ,  Irvine Garland Penn
ISBN: 9781528772365
Format: Hardback
$41.37

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett records statistics concerning instances of lynching and offers vivid descriptions of the...  Read More >>

A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays

A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12...

Author: Marc Bookman
ISBN: 9781620976548
Format: Hardback
$44.99

"""Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty...  Read More >>

Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition

Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition...

Author: Bharat Malkani
ISBN: 9780367899035
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Death Penalty: Perspectives from India and Beyond

The Death Penalty: Perspectives from India and Beyond...

Author: Sanjeev P. Sahni ,  Mohita Junnarkar
ISBN: 9789811531316
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book offers a broad overview of public attitudes to the death penalty in India. Based on public opinion surveys,...  Read More >>

Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria

Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe...

Author: Cesare Beccaria ,  Giuseppie Pelli
ISBN: 9780691209883
Format: Hardback
$62.99

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in English In 1764, a Milanese...  Read More >>

Reflections on the Guillotine

Reflections on the Guillotine

Author: Albert Camus
ISBN: 9780241475225
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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Railroaded: The true stories of the first 100 people executed in Virginia's electric chair

Railroaded: The true stories of the first 100 people...

Author: Dale M Brumfield
ISBN: 9780578720814
Format: Paperback
$33.51

In 1908, at the height of Jim Crow, Virginia switched from public hanging at local gallows to the electric chair...  Read More >>

River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

Author: Helen Prejean, CSJ
ISBN: 9781529368338
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking.  Read More >>

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