| Description |
xxiii, 376 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
America's freedoms |
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America's freedoms.
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| Contents |
Series Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- History -- The Constitution and the Death Penalty -- Voices of the Capital Punishment Debate -- 2. Origins and Early Development -- America in the Era before Independence -- The Founding Era -- The Nineteenth Century -- 3. Twentieth-Century Issues -- Continuity and Change -- Some Facts -- Philosophy -- Dreams -- From Weems to Furman -- From Furman to Gregg -- After Gregg -- 4. Into the Twenty-First Century -- Unresolved and New Issues for the Death Penalty -- Penalties Less Than Death -- Conditions of Confinement -- 5. Key People, Cases, and Events -- 6. Documents -- Chronology of Capital Punishment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States.
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| Author |
Pesto, Keith A.
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| LC no. |
2002155574 |
| ISBN |
1576076024 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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