Ethical Issues: Capital Punishment

Why is the Catholic Church against the death penalty? This second edition of Bruggers classic work Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Trad...

Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despit...

Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists As Ruth Bader Gins...

This revised and updated Second Edition is an innovative, balanced, and comprehensive overview of capital punishment. It offers an unbiased examina...

The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detai...

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers...

True-life reporting on vicious criminals and the haphazard system that punishes them In 1969, the Supreme Court justices cast votes in secret that...

For decades the high walls of Durham gaol have contained some of the countrys most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it ...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 p...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 p...

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIrans cri...