Legal Homicide: Death as Punishment in America, 1864-1982Examines the fairness of the use of the death penalty and analyzes the effects of recent laws on the arbitrariness of capital punishment. |
Contents
PART ONE EXECUTION IN AMERICA | 3 |
Executions and the Mandatory Death Penalty | 103 |
Capital Punishment in Perspective | 131 |
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