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Death Penalty on Trial - A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents (Hardcover, New)
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Death Penalty on Trial - A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents (Hardcover, New)
Series: On Trial
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An extensive survey of the pros and cons, evolution, and current
issues surrounding one of the hottest topics in today's social
debates. Death Penalty on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and
Documents sifts through the rhetoric, politics, and emotion that
characterize one of the most highly discussed, yet least understood
issues facing the United States today. Placing the death penalty in
a historical perspective with an emphasis on the last 50 years,
this case-driven volume explains the legal theory that has
perpetuated it and the judicial reasoning, both pro and con, behind
such landmark Supreme Court cases as Furman v. Georgia and The
United States of America v. Alan Quinones. From the first
Massachusetts Bay Colony execution and the inventions of the
electric chair and gas chamber to DNA testing of inmates, readers
will learn how and why capital punishment continues to be so
controversial. Entries on critical events; issues such as race,
age, and evidence of innocence; and individuals like Velma
Barfield, the first woman executed after the reinstatement of the
death penalty Chronology of the most important events in the legal
history of capital punishment, including Atkins v. Virginia, a case
involving the execution of people with mental disabilities
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