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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820419403321

Autore

Lyon Andrea D.

Titolo

The death penalty : what's keeping it alive / / Andrea D. Lyon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-3268-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

364.660973

Soggetti

Capital punishment - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Death Penalty Yesterday and Today; 2 Moral and Religious Underpinnings of the Death Penalty; 3 The Media as a Messenger of Death; 4 The Death Penalty as a Political Tool; 5 The Failure and Fate of Capital Punishment; Appendix A: Death Penalty Historical Timeline; Appendix B: Countries with and without the Death Penalty; Appendix C: States with and without the Death Penalty; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In The Death Penalty: What's Keeping it Alive an award-winning criminal defense attorney turns a critical eye towards the death penalty in America. Filled with gripping case studies, the book analyses why the death penalty remains active in most states in spite of well-documented flaws in the justice system.