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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Dispatches from Juvenile Hall: Fixing a Failing System by John Aarons Publisher Comments A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Death of Innocents an Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Sister Helen Prejean Publisher Comments Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Autobiography of an Excution (10 Edition) by David R. Dow Publisher Comments Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table. People think that because I am against the death penalty and don't think people should be executed, that I forgive those people for what they did. Well, it... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row by David R Dow Publisher Comments When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment Through History by Mark P. Donnelly Publisher Comments Explaining the mechanics of torture—even now a controversial topic—this history questions why so much effort has been put into causing pain to fellow human beings Taking readers into the ancient Roman coliseum, the medieval... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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In Defense of Flogging by Peter Moskos Publisher Comments Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals-- even low-level nonviolent offenders-- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death-Row Survivor by Billy Wayn Sinclair Book News Annotation As the result of an accidental shooting in a convenience store robbery gone wrong, Billy Wayne Sinclair served 40 years in the Louisiana prison system, six years on death row, before he was released on parole in 2006. Now a senior paralegal, Sinclair... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $5.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Autobiography of an Execution by David R Dow Publisher Comments Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table. People think that because I am against the death penalty and don't think people should be executed, that I forgive those people for what they did. Well, it... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty by Scott E Sundby Publisher Comments "This is the best account I have ever read of how a jury decides whether to impose a death sentence. We see the case from the jurors' multiple and sometimes inconsistent points of view. Deftly combining a narrative of one trial with conclusions drawn... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives by Austin Sarat Publisher Comments < div> How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?< br> < br> After... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death by Geoffrey Abbott Publisher Comments In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes the instruments used and their effectiveness and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as “gone west” or “drawn a blank,” as well as the jargon of the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber by Scott Christianson Publisher Comments "Scott Christianson has masterfully chronicled the history of the use of gas to kill human beings. In doing so, he has shown that the Nazi regime drew strength and comfort from the United States' use of the gas chamber beginning nine years before Hitler... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Abolition: One Man's Battle Against the Death Penalty by Robert Badinter Publisher Comments Part legal drama, part political procedural, Abolition is above all a passionate argument against the death penalty and the rare story of politicians' willingness to fight for their principles, even against the popular will. Horrified by the guillotine... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Evolving Standards of Decency by Mary Welek Atwell Publisher Comments The Supreme Court has looked to « evolving standards of decency in determining whether the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Evolving Standards of Decency examines the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death Penalty: An American History by Stuart Banner Publisher Comments The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane and barbaric act. But the intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies by Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher Comments In The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject, provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Who Owns Death?: Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions by Robert Jay Lifton Publisher Comments The Pope's Travel PlansThree States, Three Views of the Death Penalty Nearly three decades have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty had been applied capriciously and arbitrarily in America. Justice Byron White declared that... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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