Kiss of Death: America's Love Affair with the Death PenaltyFew issues provoke such intense feelings and strongly held views as does capital punishment. In this text, John D. Bessler skillfully interweaves the powerful life stories of death row prisoners, his own experiences as a pro-bono attorney on death penalty cases in Texas, and historical perspective to persuade the reader that state-sanctioned executions must be abolished in the US. |
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... penalty's abolition never came to pass . Thirty - five states quickly passed new death penalty laws , and just four years later , the U.S. Supreme Court felt compelled to address the issue again . In Gregg v . Georgia and two companion ...
... penalty's abolition never came to pass . Thirty - five states quickly passed new death penalty laws , and just four years later , the U.S. Supreme Court felt compelled to address the issue again . In Gregg v . Georgia and two companion ...
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America's Love Affair with the Death Penalty John D. Bessler. penalty foes made a calculated , if understandable , error ... penalty's use . With no publicity for executions , they reasoned , capital punishment soon would be abolished ...
America's Love Affair with the Death Penalty John D. Bessler. penalty foes made a calculated , if understandable , error ... penalty's use . With no publicity for executions , they reasoned , capital punishment soon would be abolished ...
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... penalty support drops even further if pollsters add the condition that murderers be required to work in prison to earn money to pay restitution to vic- tims ' families.5 The death penalty's morality , of course , cannot be assessed by ...
... penalty support drops even further if pollsters add the condition that murderers be required to work in prison to earn money to pay restitution to vic- tims ' families.5 The death penalty's morality , of course , cannot be assessed by ...
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