Death Penalty in America - Current Controversies

This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty in America. It follows up on, though is much more than a revision of, Bedau's Death Penalty in America, third edition (OUP, 1982). Virtually all the readings are new, and include updated statistical and research data, recent Supreme Court decisions, and major recent contributions to the debate over capital punishment.

About the author

Hugo Adam Bedau is Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.

Summary

This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty in America. It follows up on, though is much more than a revision of, Bedau's Death Penalty in America, third edition (OUP, 1982). Virtually all the readings are new, and include updated statistical and research data, recent Supreme Court decisions, and major recent contributions to the debate over capital punishment.

Additional text

This volume is to some extent a handbook; but it is also more than that. The new essays are well worth reading./ Prof Nigel Walker, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge / New Law Journal, 26/02/99

Report

This volume is to some extent a handbook; but it is also more than that. The new essays are well worth reading./ Prof Nigel Walker, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge / New Law Journal, 26/02/99

Product details

• Authors: Hugo Adam Bedau, Hugo Adam (Austin Fletcher Professor of Phi Bedau
• Assisted by: Hugo A. Bedau (Editor), Hugo Adam Bedau (Editor), Hugo Adam (Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Bedau (Editor), Bedau Hugo Adam (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780195122862
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512286-2
• No. of pages: 544
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Criminal law & procedure, United States of America, USA, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Criminal law: procedure and offences