Capital Punishment
by Melusky, JosephFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-08-31
Publisher(s): ABC CLIO LTD
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Capital Punishment examines the debate around the death penalty, raising questions and attempting to provide an even-handed examination of this controversial practice. The authors combine analysis of important issues with excerpts from landmark legal decisions, important documents, survey results, and empirical data.The first part of the book discusses the origins of the death penalty and traces its development from antiquity to contemporary times. Detailed statistical information about capital punishment is presented and discussed, and the death penalty is considered against a constitutional backdrop with various argumentsfor and againstarticulated. The second part of the book is devoted to primary source materials, carefully edited to make them accessible and understandable to those who lack formal legal training. A thorough and insightful treatment, Capital Punishment provides both a summary of the current state of capital punishment and a discussion of areas of continuing controversy.
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