The Death Penalty: America's Experience with Capital Punishment

Raymond Paternoster, Robert Brame, Sarah Bacon

Oxford University Press, 2008 - Law - 314 pages

Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Death Penalty: America's Experience with Capital Punishment
• Authors: Raymond Paternoster, Robert Brame, Sarah Bacon
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1933220147, 9781933220147
• Length: 314 pages
• Subjects: Law / Criminal Law / General; Social Science / Capital Punishment; Social Science / Penology