TY - BOOK AU - Bohm,Robert M. TI - The death penalty today SN - 9781420070118 (pbk.) U1 - 345.730773 PY - 2008/// CY - Boca Raton, Fla., London PB - CRC, Taylor & Francis [distributor] KW - Capital punishment KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - United States N1 - 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 ER -