The death penalty today / edited by Robert M. Bohm. - Boca Raton, Fla. : London : CRC ; Taylor & Francis [distributor], c2008. - xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

I. Miscarriages of Justice and Innocence. - 1. Errors in capital cases and what can be done about them. - 2. Scrutinizing the death penalty - 3. Themes of wrongful executions in the Post-Furman Era. - 4. Making it work : compensation for the wrongfully convicted. - 5. A painless cocktail? The lethal injection controversy. -- II. Death Penalty Opinion, Media Access to Executions, Consensual Executions, and the Relationship between Lynching and the Death Penalty. 6. Assessing Scholarly Opinion of Capital Punishment:The Experts Speak. 7. Police Managers' Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment. 8. The United States Can't Televise an Execution Because It Will Make Condemned Men Feel Bad About the Death Penalty: Issues Raised by the Suit to Make McVeigh's Execution Public. 9. "Let's Do It!":An Analysis of Consensual Executions.- 10. Some Hypotheses About Capital Punishment and Lynching.

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Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Capital punishment--United States.

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