Ethical issues: capital punishment books

205 books were found.

The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber

The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas...

Author: Scott Christianson
ISBN: 9780520255623
Format: Hardback
$104.95

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Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective

Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in...

Author: A. Hammel
ISBN: 9780230231986
Format: Hardback
$154.00

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The Practice of Execution in Canada

The Practice of Execution in Canada

Author: Ken Leyton-Brown
ISBN: 9780774817530
Format: Hardback
$248.16

The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.  Read More >>

Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the...

Author: David M. Oshinsky
ISBN: 9780700617111
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Takes a fresh look at the Supreme Court's controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment - in the...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the...

Author: David M. Oshinsky
ISBN: 9780700617104
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Takes a fresh look at the Supreme Court's controversial and much-debated stances on capital punishment - in the...  Read More >>

Killing Time: One Man's Race To Stop An Execution

Killing Time: One Man's Race To Stop An Execution

Author: David Dow
ISBN: 9781741669459
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Both a haunting memoir and a gripping legal thriller, this is the story of David Dow, a Texas Death Row Attorney,...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment Global Viewpoints

Capital Punishment Global Viewpoints

Author: Noah Berlatsky
ISBN: 9780737746631
Format: Paperback
$67.27

This volume aspects of capital punishment as it is practiced internationally, anf on opposing viewpoints of the...  Read More >>

Why We Kill: Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines

Why We Kill: Understanding Violence Across Cultures...

Author: Nancy Loucks ,  Sally Smith Holt
ISBN: 9781904750420
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book examines violence in many of its manifestations, exploring how culture plays a role in people's understanding...  Read More >>

The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment...

Author: Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ,  Austin Sarat
ISBN: 9780814762189
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Discusses how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the debate over lethal injection...  Read More >>

The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment...

Author: Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ,  Austin Sarat
ISBN: 9780814762172
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Discusses how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the debate over lethal injection...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Author: James A. McCafferty ,  James A. McCafferty
ISBN: 9780202363288
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Presents an analyses of the nature of capital punishment and provides perspectives on the larger issues of our approach...  Read More >>

A Life for a Life: The American Debate Over the Death Penalty

A Life for a Life: The American Debate Over the Death...

Author: Michael Dow Burkhead
ISBN: 9780786433681
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Offering a look at the intense public debate surrounding the death penalty in the United States, this book explores...  Read More >>

Hanged at Lincoln

Hanged at Lincoln

Author: Stephen Wade
ISBN: 9780750951104
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life

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

Author: James D. Slack
ISBN: 9781412810210
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Focuses on the relationship between public morality and personal action in the American political community. This...  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: 9780199544554
Format: Hardback
$250.95

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

No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country’s Busiest Death Penalty States

No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography...

Author: Andrew Welsh-Huggins ,  Paul Finkelman
ISBN: 9780821418345
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment...  Read More >>

No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country’s Busiest Death Penalty States

No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography...

Author: Andrew Welsh-Huggins ,  Paul Finkelman
ISBN: 9780821418338
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment...  Read More >>

Abolition

Abolition

Author: Kenneth Roth ,  Jeremy Mercer
ISBN: 9781555536923
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The English translation of a behind-the-scenes account of the abolition of the death penalty in France  Read More >>

The Law of Capital Punishment

The Law of Capital Punishment

Author: Margaret C. Jasper
ISBN: 9780195376555
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Legal Almanac Series, Law for the Layperson This series is written for people at all levels of experience and education...  Read More >>

Condemned: Letters from Death Row

Condemned: Letters from Death Row

Author: Sean O'Riain ,  Ray
ISBN: 9781905483488
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada

Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899:...

Author: Kerry Segrave
ISBN: 9780786438235
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment

American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in...

Author: Sasha Abramsky
ISBN: 9780807042236
Format: Paperback
$48.00

An expose about the penitentiary system and how vengeance has replaced rehabilitation in our prisons  Read More >>

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