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This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice system today-the death penalty. Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view. Topics include: * The history of the death penalty in the United States, from the 1600s to today * The changing nature of the death penalty-changes in the types of crimes that warranted the penalty, the procedures employed to put capital offenders on trial, and the methods used to impose death * Constitutional/legal issues surrounding the death penalty * The influence of race on the administration of the death penalty, both in the past and in the present * Justifications for and against the death penalty (retribution, cost, public safety, and religious arguments) * Questions about the execution of innocents, exonerated capital offenders, and flaws in the operation of the death penalty * Public opinion and the death penalty * The death penalty and international law and practice * The future of the death penalty in America

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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Criminal law & procedure

• Full title: Death Penalty
• Subtitle: America's Experience with Capital Punishment
• Author: Raymond Paternoster, Robert Brame, Sarah Bacon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362
• EAN: 9780195332421
• ISBN: 0195332423
• ID: 04517909
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 482 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 158 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 2008

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