Death Penalty on Trial - A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents

An extensive survey of the pros and cons, evolution, and current issues surrounding one of the hottest topics in today''s social debates. Death Penalty on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents sifts through the rhetoric, politics, and emotion that characterize one of the most highly discussed, yet least understood issues facing the United States today. Placing the death penalty in a historical perspective with an emphasis on the last 50 years, this case-driven volume explains the legal theory that has perpetuated it and the judicial reasoning, both pro and con, behind such landmark Supreme Court cases as Furman v. Georgia and The United States of America v. Alan Quinones . From the first Massachusetts Bay Colony execution and the inventions of the electric chair and gas chamber to DNA testing of inmates, readers will learn how and why capital punishment continues to be so controversial.

About the author

Gary P. Gershman, PhD, is assistant professor of history and legal studies in the Division of Humanities at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL. His published works include ABC-CLIO's Death Penalty on Trial.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Gershman, Gary P Gershman, Gary P. Gershman, Gershman Gary P.
• Assisted by: Charles L. Zelden (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2005
• EAN: 9781851096060
• ISBN: 978-1-85109-606-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: On Trial; On Trial S.; On Trial
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Courts, LAW / Trial Practice, United States of America, USA, History: specific events and topics, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures