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Death watch : a death penalty anthology / Lane Nelson, Burk Foster.
Van Pelt Library HV8699.U5 N45 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Lane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2001.
- Summary:
- The topics covered in this volume include:
- how capital cases are different in the legal process how death penalty offenders are selected the selective application of the death penalty to women and juveniles problems in providing competent counsel to death penalty defendants medical issues related to organ donation and physician participation in executions the execution of blacks for rape in the South how the death penalty was imposed and carried out in the past reflections on death row life by inmates under death sentence the last words of men and women before execution the dilemma of defending the innocent on death row feature articles on two Louisiana inmates, Antonio James and John A. Brown, Jr., executed in 1996 and 1997 the ethics of the death penalty today
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0130852015
- OCLC:
- 45327136
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