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Original Essays | November 9, 2009
By Jesse Bullington
I don't believe in evil. It's a word I use, certainly, because words are shortcuts and we all take the short way round from time to time, but that's...
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Death Watch: A Death Penalty Anthology
by Lane Nelson
Synopses & Reviews Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-303) and index.
Synopsis: The topics covered in this volume include: - how capital cases are different in the legal process
- how death penalty offenders are selected
- the selective application of the death penalty to women and juveniles
- problems in providing competent counsel to death penalty defendants
- medical issues related to organ donation and physician participation in executions
- the execution of blacks for rape in the South
- how the death penalty was imposed and carried out in the past
- reflections on death row life by inmates under death sentence
- the last words of men and women before execution
- the dilemma of defending the innocent on death row
- feature articles on two Louisiana inmates, Antonio James and John A. Brown, Jr., executed in 1996 and 1997
- the ethics of the death penalty today
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780130852014
- Subtitle:
- A Death Penalty Anthology
- Author:
- Nelson, Lane
- Author:
- Foster, Burk
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall
- Location:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J.
- Subject:
- Penology
- Subject:
- Jurisprudence
- Subject:
- Capital punishment
- Subject:
- Death row inmates
- Subject:
- Death row
- Copyright:
- 2001
- Series Volume:
- no. 37
- Publication Date:
- July 2000
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 310
- Dimensions:
- 9.22x7.04x.50 in. 1.00 lbs.
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