Notes on the punishment of death.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calvert, E. Roy (Eric Roy), 1898?-1933.

Contributor:

National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (Great Britain)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

11 part ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty: London, [1926]

Contents:

1. Its fundamental wrongfulness

2. The historic plea that the death penalty "protects society"

3. The theory of deterrency

4-5. The position in other countries

6. The question of responsibility

7. The causes of murder

8. Miscarriages of justice

9. The jury and capital punishment

10. Press publicity

11. Prison officials and the death penalty

12-13. The alternative to capital punishment.

Notes:

Pamphlets 4-5 and 12-13 issued as single vols.

Articles reprinted from The Crusader.

OCLC:

558057901