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Is capital punishment just? Does it deter people from murder? What is the risk that we will execute innocent people? These are the usual questions at the heart
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Despite public support for the death penalty, a remarkable number of countries in different parts of the world have banned capital punishment in all its forms,
The Killing State
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Pages: 276
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-05-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting t
Race, Class, and the Death Penalty
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Authors: Howard W. Allen
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.
When Police Kill
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-20 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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“A remarkable book.”—Malcolm Gladwell, San Francisco Chronicle Deaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the national spotlight as never b