Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 333
Pages: 333
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-17 - Publisher: Yale University Press
The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million
Language: en
Pages: 474
Pages: 474
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: UPNE
This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalt
Language: en
Pages: 401
Pages: 401
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-02-21 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.S. history, Cruel and Unusual Punishment stands out as a levelheaded, even-handed, and thorou
Language: en
Pages: 326
Pages: 326
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-23 - Publisher: Quid Pro Books
The true and gripping account of the nine-year struggle by a small band of lawyers to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Its new edition features a
Language: en
Pages: 122
Pages: 122
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-16 - Publisher: MIT Press
A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of t