Explores the controversies surrounding capital punishment in the United States, focusing on more than a dozen of the most controversial Oklahoma death penalty cases, including two in which innocent men nearly lost their lives.
Provides an account of the Supreme Court case of Furman v Georgia in which the Court overturned the imposition of the death penalty for convicted murderer William Henry Furman after hearing arguments that the death sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment and was in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments.
Contains over 240 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of capital punishment, featuring biographies of people who have been executed, and covering court cases, methods, statistics, and other related topics.
Anthology of primary sources about youth violence taken from periodicals, books, newspapers, United States government documents, and other publications.
Offers a comprehensive history of the death penalty in the United States, discussing the changes which have occured over the last four centuries in the way capital punishment has been administered and experienced.
Examines the church's position on capital punishment throughout history, discussing how Christian leaders and philosophers have viewed the practice from biblical times through the 1990s.
