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...

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penaltyhere for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria cr...

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...

An Open Letters Monthly Best Nonfiction Book of the YearAmericas criminal justice system is broken. The United States punishes at a higher per capi...

The brutal murders of young Devon and Damon Routier in the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, put their motherDarlie Routierat the heart of one o...

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no ...

A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing l...

A rigorous and defiant collection that subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American cult...

In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions d...

Tracing the history of female crime and execution from 1726 to 1955, Women and the Noose presents the cases of over fifty women who met their end o...

An insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner. Stewart P. EvansBetween 1884...

During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens ...