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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyon, Andrea D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--United States--History.

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8108-9602-8

1-4422-3268-4

OCLC:

896794022