Ethical issues: capital punishment books

205 books were found.

How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment

How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment...

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson ,  Danielle Dirks
ISBN: 9781138153233
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these...  Read More >>

The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space

The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space...

Author: Jennifer Turner
ISBN: 9781137532411
Format: Hardback
$294.95

This book explores the idea of the prison boundary, identifying where it is located, which processes and performances...  Read More >>

Raif Badawi: The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story

Raif Badawi: The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story...

Author: Ensaf Haidar ,  Andrea C Hoffmann
ISBN: 9781408707937
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A powerful and moving account of the treatment of Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger sentenced to 1000 lashes, as well...  Read More >>

Three Cases That Shook the Law

Three Cases That Shook the Law

Author: Ronald Bartle
ISBN: 9781909976306
Format: Paperback
$51.62

There are cases in the annals of English criminal law that forever resonate. In Three Cases that Shook the Law former...  Read More >>

Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri: A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1965

Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky...

Author: Daniel Allen Hearn
ISBN: 9780786498703
Format: Paperback
$171.60

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Women and Capital Punishment in the United States: An Analytical History

Women and Capital Punishment in the United States: An...

Author: David V. Baker
ISBN: 9780786499502
Format: Paperback
$131.87

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Legal Executions in Georgia: A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1964

Legal Executions in Georgia: A Comprehensive Registry,...

Author: Daniel Allen Hearn
ISBN: 9780786498697
Format: Paperback
$171.60

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Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases

Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences...

Author: Robin Conley
ISBN: 9780199334162
Format: Hardback
$69.95

Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate...  Read More >>

Prisoner Voices from Death Row: Indian Experiences

Prisoner Voices from Death Row: Indian Experiences

Author: Reena Mary George
ISBN: 9781472461728
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also...  Read More >>

Moving away from the death penalty: arguments, trends and perspectives

Moving away from the death penalty: arguments, trends...

Author: United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ,  United Nations Publications
ISBN: 9789211542158
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Contains articles by the world's foremost academics and experts in the field from all regions. Articles cover a...  Read More >>

Comparative Executive Clemency: The Constitutional Pardon Power and the Prerogative of Mercy in Global Perspective

Comparative Executive Clemency: The Constitutional Pardon...

Author: Andrew Novak
ISBN: 9781138813823
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory

Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience,...

Author: Lizzie Seal
ISBN: 9781138961296
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty

At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the...

Author: Melynda J. Price (Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780190205546
Format: Paperback
$67.95

Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement....  Read More >>

At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty

At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the...

Author: Melynda J. Price (Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780190205539
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement....  Read More >>

Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the...

Author: Anthony Galvin
ISBN: 9781631440267
Format: Hardback
$62.99

"In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method....  Read More >>

An American Dilemma: International Law, Capital Punishment, and Federalism

An American Dilemma: International Law, Capital Punishment,...

Author: M. Atwell
ISBN: 9781137270368
Format: Hardback
$181.95

An American Dilemma examines the issue of capital punishment in the United States as it conflicts with the nation's...  Read More >>

Dateline Purgatory: Examining the Case that Sentenced Darlie Routier to Death

Dateline Purgatory: Examining the Case that Sentenced...

Author: Kathy Cruz
ISBN: 9780875656106
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the...

Author: Anthony Galvin
ISBN: 9781631440298
Format: Electronic book text
$92.37

In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method....  Read More >>

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American...

Author: Prof. Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law, Flushing, NY)
ISBN: 9780199967933
Format: Hardback
$212.95

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American...  Read More >>

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Author: Andrew Reynolds (Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Reader in Medieval Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198723158
Format: Paperback
$103.95

Andrew Reynolds provides the first detailed consideration of how Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts....  Read More >>

Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition, Second Edition

Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition,...

Author: E. Christian Brugger
ISBN: 9780268022419
Format: Paperback
$76.56

This book traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken to its present position as the world’s largest and most...  Read More >>

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking...

Author: James D. Slack
ISBN: 9781412853989
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Author James D. Slack guides the reader through an in-depth examination of policy toward life and death in the United...  Read More >>

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice

Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice...

Author: James R. Acker
ISBN: 9780415639446
Format: Paperback
$168.00

The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather...  Read More >>

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