The Death Penalty: Perspectives from India and Beyond 9789811531293, 9811531293

Beyond Repair?: America's Death Penalty 9780822384038

Essays offer a new challenge to the death penalty's legitimacy, in light of new empirical research and case studies

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The Death Penalty: Issues and Answers

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The penalty of death 9780803914537

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The Death Penalty, Volume II 9780226410968

In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambiti

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Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty 9780823282326

How does literature contest capital punishment? The central question of this book, taken over from Derrida’s seminar The

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Deterrence and the Death Penalty [1 ed.] 9780309254175, 9780309254168

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on

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From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America 9780814762424

Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This tren

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Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria 9780691211374

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in English In 1764, a Milanese aris

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The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History 9781487538101

This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex kille

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Killing Times: The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty 9780823283514

Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued b

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