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Books on: history of the death penalty

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The Death Penalty: An American History

Book by Stuart Banner; Harvard University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Capital Punishment--Moral And Ethical Aspects--United States, Capital Punishment--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...western Europe, that the death penalty was one such abuse. Foreign...overwhelmingly favored the death penalty. Fatal Errors...any year since 1951. Death sentences and executions...at any time in American history. The death row population...
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Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998

Book by Kathleen A. O'Shea; Praeger Publishers, 1999

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Capital Punishment--United States--History--20th Century--Case Studies, Death Row Inmates--United States--History--20th Century--Case Studies, Executions And Executioners--United States--History--20th Century--Case Studies, Women Prisoners--United States--History--20th Century--Case Studies

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...state of Maryland has sentenced two women to death since 1900. No woman has been legally executed in Maryland, and there are no women on death row in Maryland today. The history of the death penalty in Maryland is long. In fact, as a common...
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Arbitrary and Capricious: The Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the Death Penalty

Book by Michael A. Foley; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

Capital Punishment--United States, Capital Punishment--United States--History, Due Process Of Law--United States--History, Equality Before The Law--United States--History

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...eloquently in opposition to the death penalty, but from a legislative...abhorrence, for the death penalty, with all its...would vote against the death penalty for the policy...connected to the past. The history of support for the death...
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The Penalty Is Death: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's Executions

Book by Marlin Shipman; University of Missouri Press, 2002

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Capital Punishment--United States--History, Executions And Executioners--Press Coverage--United States--History, Women Prisoners--United States--History

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...condemned person in the history of the prison to be taken...from her cell to the death chair. Attendants lifted...said people condemned to death die two deaths. One is during the process...Camus said the first death is the worst. Camus...reformer against the death penalty (Mackey, Voices against...
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The Epigraphy of Death: Studies in the History and Society of Greece and Rome

Book by G. J. Oliver; Liverpool University Press, 2000

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Death--Social Aspects--Greece, Death--Social Aspects--Rome, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--Greece--History, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--Rome--History, Greece--Antiquities, Greece--Social Life And Customs, Rome--Antiquities, Rome--Social Life And Customs, Tombs--Greece, Tombs--Rome

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...If Isarchos was in fact demarch, then he would have faced a penalty of 1,000 drachmai if he had failed to establish a contract...Humphreys 1993 , ch. 5 on the role of the family in the rituals of death and burial; cf. Morris 1992 , p. 159 for Roman families...

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Journal Articles on: history of the death penalty

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The Death Penalty: An American History

Journal article by Robert J. Cottrol; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 56, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Death Penalty: An American History (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Death Penalty: An American History. by Robert J. Cottrol...original aim, to bring us a history of the death penalty that informs us of capital...uncomfortable present. The Death Penalty: An American History is a rich legal and social...
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The Death Penalty: An American History

Journal article by Lucy E. Salyer; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Death Penalty: An American History (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Death Penalty: An American History. by Lucy E. Salyer The Death Penalty: An American History. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge...arbitrary application of the death penalty. Throughout American history, there had been considerable...
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The Death Penalty: An American History

Journal article by Alan Rogers; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Death Penalty: An American History (Book)--Book reviews

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The Death Penalty: An American History. by Alan Rogers The Death Penalty: An American History. By Stuart Banner. (Cambridge...Historians largely have neglected the history of the death penalty in the United...
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Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History

Journal article by Jeffrey S. Adler; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History. by Jeffrey S. Adler Race...Capital Punishment in American History. By Howard W. Allen and...scholars have written about the history of the death penalty in America...
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Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman V. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America

Journal article by David R. Dow; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011

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Books--Book reviews, Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Furman V. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America. by...volume is equal parts history, philosophy, and legal...lengthiest decision in Court history at the time of its release...perhaps any justice in the history of the Court" (p...

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Magazine Articles on: history of the death penalty

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Swinging Sixties the Abolition of Capital Punishment: Liz Homans Looks Back over the Long Campaign to Remove the Death Penalty from the Statute Book. the Article Is an Edited Version of Her BA Dissertation, Which Was 'Highly Commended' by the Royal Historical Society/History Today Judges in January

Magazine article by Liz Homans; History Today, Vol. 58, December 2008

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Capital punishment--History, Capital punishment--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to Remove the Death Penalty from the Statute...Historical Society/History Today Judges in...belief that the death penalty just wasnt on...moment in the history of abolition...signalled that the death penalty had no place as...
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Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future

Magazine article by Tom Lowenstein; The American Prospect, Vol. 12, December 3, 2001

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Books--Reviews, Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future (Book)--Reviews

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...Jacksons National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2001...stand with those on death row," Jackson acknowledges...activists in the anti-death-penalty movement, is a vital...unfolds, outlining the history of the death penalty...
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The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty

Magazine article by Tom Lowenstein; The American Prospect, Vol. 12, December 3, 2001

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Books--Reviews, The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty (Book)--Reviews

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...Jacksons National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2001...stand with those on death row," Jackson acknowledges...activists in the anti-death-penalty movement, is a vital...unfolds, outlining the history of the death penalty...
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Death Undying

Magazine article by Wendy Kaminer; The American Prospect, Vol. 14, July 2003

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The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (Book)--Reviews, The Death Penalty: An American History (Book)--Reviews

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Death undying. by Wendy Kaminer...PENALTY: AN AMERICAN HISTORY BY STUART BANNER * HARVARD...Banners The Death Penalty: An American History...comprehensive history of death-penalty practice and policy...and sustain the death penalty. Not many people approach...proliferation of death penalties partly reflected the...
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The Cost of Punishment: The Expense of the Death Penalty Has Lawmakers Reconsidering an Old Debate

Magazine article by Richard Williams; State Legislatures, Vol. 37, July 2011

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Capital punishment--History, Capital punishment--Laws, regulations and rules, Legislators (U.S. state governments)--Domestic policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Expense of the Death Penalty Has Lawmakers...punishments unstable history demonstrates...Without the death penalty, Durkin believes...the states history, a home invasion...sentenced to death earlier this...rent death penalty will make it...

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Newspaper Articles on: history of the death penalty

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The Biggest Question Hanging over Bush; PERSPECTIVE in the Wake of the Saddam Verdict, Chris Game Looks at the History and Far-Reaching Implications of the Death Penalty

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 13, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Game Looks at the History and Far-Reaching Implications of the Death Penalty. Byline: Chris...throughout Danish history, a beheading by...next January, all death penalties handed down by...reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 following...
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2,000 Years Later Crucifixion Is Still Used to Execute People; the Easter Story Contains Perhaps the Most Famous Public Execution of All Time. but as Cathy Owens of Amnesty International, Writes, the Death Penalty Is Far from Being Consigned to History

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 5, 2010

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Amnesty International

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Writes, the Death Penalty Is Far from Being Consigned to History. Byline: Cathy...to abolish the death penalty continues, and...punishment to history rises each year...abolished the death penalty. Hopefully...
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Exchanging One Uniform for Another; Disgrace, Even Death, the Penalty for Switch

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 25, 2007

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Soldiers, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Another; Disgrace, Even Death, the Penalty for Switch. Byline: Jack...of desertion punishable by death. In reality, soldiers often...and the threat of severe penalties within the army was needed...From "The Photographic History of The Civil War"
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St. George and the Death-Penalty Dragon Deadline' Ennobles a Corrupt Politician to Score Points against Capital Punishment

Newspaper article by Ted Cox; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 30, 2004

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Ryan, George

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...their analysis of the death penalty and genuinely noble in their...weakens its argument against the death penalty. George Ryan tacitly endorsed...risk, and resulting in known deaths and injuries in traffic accidents...citizens are going to insist the death penalty is legal, then Id...
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Barsanti's Strategy of Using the Death Penalty to Leverage Plea Bargains Has Met with Mixed Results - and Some Criticism

Newspaper article by Adam Kovac; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 18, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...August with the shooting death of Edmund Edwards during...considering whether to withdraw the death penalty on Friday. Attorneys in...say Calabrese could have a history of mental illness. Bohmans anti-death penalty group blasted Barsanti for...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: history of the death penalty

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Capital Punishment

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...PUNISHMENT imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History Capital punishment was widely...year the Court ruled that the death penalty must be imposed through a...instances by supporters of the death penalty, for the reexamination of...
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Supreme Court, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...third great period of constitutional history began after President Franklin Delano...proved surprisingly liberal. The death penalty (see capital punishment ) was declared...retirement of Justice OConnor and the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist, Bush...
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Rosenberg Case

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ROSENBERG CASE in U.S. history, a lengthy and controversial...1951) and received the death sentence; Morton Sobell...civilians to suffer the death penalty in an espionage trial...Union and argued that the death penalty was too severe...
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Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...are over 10,000 deaths directly attributable...of the highway deaths in the United States...treatment have a history of criminal behavior...reduction of criminal penalties for using or dealing...imprisonment and even the death penalty. To clarify the...the severest penalties were reserved for...Pipe Dreams: A History of Americas Romance...
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Benefit of Clergy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...severities of English criminal law, which imposed the death penalty for many offenses now deemed trivial. Criminal law...J. R. Cameron, Frederick William Maitland and the History of English Law (1961...

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