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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...
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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...
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Death of Innocents : Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (05 Edition)
by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking," now takes readers to the new moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we're killing the wrong man? Prejean implores readers to reflect on what is perhaps the core moral issue of the death...
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Ultimate Punishment : Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing With the Death Penalty (03 Edition)
by Scott Turow Publisher Comments A gripping examination of the case for and against capital punishment by a respected criminal lawyer and celebrated novelist. In the words of Harvard Law Professor, Laurence H. Tribe "Ultimate Punishment is the ultimate statement about the death penalty:...
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Lethal Injection: Capital Punishment in Texas During the Modern Era
by Jonathan R Sorensen Publisher Comments Few state issues have attracted as much controversy and national attention as the application of the death penalty in Texas. In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has led the nation in passing death sentences and executing...
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Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime
by David R. Dow Publisher Comments Thurgood Marshall said that the more people learned about the death penalty, the more they'd be against it. It's racist, unfair to poor people and the mentally retarded, and far too often ends horribly in the state sanctioned murder of innocents. And no...
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History of Punishment
by Lewis Lyons Publisher Comments cover price 24.95...
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Punishment and Inequality in America
by Bruce Western Publisher Comments Profiles how the dramatic growth in incarceration came about and the toll it is taking on the social and economic fabric of many American communities....
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Debating the Death Penalty (04 Edition)
by Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher Comments This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and philosophers--to debate the death penalty in a spirit of open inquiry and civil discussion. Here, as the contributors present their reasons for or against capital punishment...
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Punishment, Communication, and Community (Law)
by R A Duff Publisher Comments Written by one of the top philosophers of punishment, examines the main trends in penal theorizing over the past three decades. Duff asks what can justify criminal punishment, and then explores the legitimacy of actual practices by examining what would...
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Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
by Mark Essig 
Publisher Comments A "Discover" magazine Top Science Book <BR>Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the electrification of America's cities. A decade later, despite having been an avowed...
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Train of Powder (55 Edition)
by Rebecca West Publisher Comments These accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness....
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Death Penalty on Trial (04 Edition)
by 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...
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Prisoners Once Removed the Impact of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities
by Jeremy Travis Book News Annotation In introducing ten essays by social scientists and legal experts on the ripple effects of the escalating incarceration rate on family relationships, Travis (Urban Institute) and Waul (National Center for Victims of Crime) note that this book reflects...
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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...
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Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
by Jody Raphael Publisher Comments The latest volume in the popular trilogy of books about women, poverty, and...
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Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
by Michael Tonry Publisher Comments This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors address plea-bargaining, community service, electronic monitoring, standards of use of...
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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...
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
by Geoffrey Abbott Publisher Comments A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions ,strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day. Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they...
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Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
by Lisa Silverman Publisher Comments List of IllustrationsPrefaceA Note on Foreign TermsIntroductionPart One: An Epistemology of Pain1. Murder in the rue Noue: The Trials of Jean Bourdil and the Legal System of Old Regime France2. "If he trembles, if he weeps, or sighs . . .": Judges, Legal...
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