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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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The History of Punishment by Lewis Lyons Publisher Comments Crime has always been apart of human society. It has been punished in many ways: from banishment to flogging and the death penalty. The History of Punishment reviews the penalties imposed in different cultures and times, addressing some intriguing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States (Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justic) by Charles Jr Ogletree Publisher Comments Why do people commit crimes? How do we control crime? The theories that criminologists use to answer these questions are built on a number of underlying assumptions, including those about the nature of crime, free will, human nature, and society. ... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture by John Conroy Publisher Comments An examination of torture (in the name of the state) in three democracies (Israel, Northern Ireland, and the United States) by John Conroy, a Chicago journalist with a strong following among readers who know his previous book (a war diary of life in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber by Scott Christianson Publisher Comments The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (American Ways) by Manfred Berg Publisher Comments Lynching has often been called America's national crime that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims, Judge Lynch holds a firm place in the dark recesses of our national memory.In Popular Justice,... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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When You Read This They Will Have Killed Me: The Life and Redemption of Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America by Alan Bisbort Publisher Comments When Caryl Chessman appeared on the cover of Time's March 21, 1960 issue, he was the most famous prisoner in America and arguably the best-known in the world. He not only put a face on the issue of capital punishment, he made one of the most remarkable... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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America Without the Death Penalty by John F Galliher Publisher Comments A provocative study, with a new preface, of the abolition of capital punishment in the twelve American states that have outlawed it. In 2000, Governor George Ryan of Illinois, a Republican and a supporter of the death penalty, declared a moratorium... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Death Penalty on Trial by Bill Kurtis Publisher Comments Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994 by Herbert H Haines Publisher Comments Built on in-depth interviews with movement leaders and the records of key abolitionist organizations, this work traces the struggle against capital punishment in the United States since 1972. Haines reviews the legal battles that led to the short-lived... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $4.95 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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Proximity to Death by William Mcfeely Publisher Comments On a misty September morning in rural Georgia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian found himself cast in a role that he had never imagined for himself: an expert witness in the sentencing trial of a convicted kidnapper, rapist, and murderer. His brief... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Who Owns Death? : Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions (00 Edition) 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 $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Forgiving the Dead Man Walking by Debbie Morris with Gregg Lewis Publisher Comments A true, first-person account by the victim who survived the crimes committed by the rapist and killer made famous in the movie Dead Man Walking. Debbie Morris takes readers beyond the story of those crimes and into the journey of her faith as she... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South by Gilbert King Publisher Comments On May 3, 1946, in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, a seventeen-year-old black boy was scheduled for execution by electric chair. Willie Francis had been charged with murder; his trial had been brief; his death sentence never in doubt. When the executioners... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie Publisher Comments There are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970. The national incarceration rate in 1997 was twice that in 1985. California's prison system has become the third largest in the world. And despite some limited recent declines in crime... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Words of the Executed by Robert Elder Publisher Comments Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour—and only they can be sure that their last words will... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Contexts of Juvenile Justice Decision Making: When Race Matters by Michael J. Leiber Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-220) and index.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future by Jesse Jackson Publisher Comments From eminent civil rights leaders Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., and Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., and Bruce Shapiro, The Nation's criminal justice correspondent, comes a major contribution to the debate over capital punishment. Tracing the death penalty from... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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