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Hung, Drawn, and Quartered: the story of execution through the ages/ by Moore, Jonathan J.(CARDINAL)792401;
This history of execution methods begins with the Roman Colosseum, goes through the Middle Ages, the French Revolution, and on into the 20th century.
Subjects: Executions, Criminal punishment;
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A history of capital punishment / by Laurence, John Laurence,1885-;
Subjects: Executions and executioners.; Crime; Criminals; Capital punishment.;
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Secrets Of The Killing State : the untold story of lethal injection / by Lain, Corinna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-355) and index.Introduction -- The Execution of Clayton Lockett -- Faux science -- Torturous drugs -- An exceedingly delicate, error-prone procedure -- Inept executioners -- The drug supplier saga -- The medical profession mandate -- The prison problem -- The secrecy solution -- Epilogue."Lethal injection is nothing like what you think. These are the Secrets of the Killing State. This is its untold story-a story of incompetence, law-breaking, lies and malfeasance, all covered by a heavy layer of secrecy"--
Subjects: Lethal injection (Execution); Capital punishment; Executions and executioners; Justice, Administration of;
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The eyes of Willie McGee : a tragedy of race, sex, and secrets in the Jim Crow South / by Heard, Alex.(CARDINAL)651320;
MARCIVE 07/06/10Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-365) and index."A saga of race and retribution in the deep South that says as much about Mississippi today as it does about the mysteries of the past"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Trial and arbitral proceedings.; McGee, Willie, 1915-1951; Capital punishment; Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Executions and executioners; Race discrimination;
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Summoned at midnight : a story of race and the last military executions at Fort Leavenworth / by Serrano, Richard A.,author.(CARDINAL)648571;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-228) and index.Army justice -- Austria -- The castle -- Seven base -- White death row -- Eisenhower -- Black death row -- A great trouble -- Kennedy -- Midnight."In the late 1950s, as the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. was at last gaining ground, 16 soldiers sat confined in basement cells on death row in the army's Fort Leavenworth maximum security prison in Kansas. Exactly eight were white and eight were black. All of the white soldiers were commuted. Not only were their lives spared, but they all were eventually released and returned to their families. They benefited from powerful Washington powerbrokers, including the Eisenhower administration and Congress, high-priced, specialized lawyers and a groundswell of public support. Only black soldiers were hung. They were summoned at midnight to a wooden gallows and dropped to their deaths. They enjoyed no Washington support, could not afford expensive lawyers and had little public backing. Their casefiles are meager - often containing a desperate, misspelled letter from a mother pleading for her son's life. Then in early 1961 a final case reached the Oval Office in Washington. President John Kennedy, a Democrat, a liberal, and a Catholic, a leader strong on Civil Rights, was still in his First Hundred Days when confronted with whether to spare army Private John A. Bennett. Unlike all the other condemned men, white and black, Bennett was not a murderer. He had killed no one. Instead he was sentenced to die for raping a white girl. But like the other men soldiers who were hung, Bennett was black. Were he to die, he would become the last soldier executed by the army, the last in nearly 60 years"--
Subjects: Discrimination in capital punishment; African American soldiers.; Discrimination in the military; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Executions and executioners;
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Harsh justice : criminal punishment and the widening divide between America and Europe / by Whitman, James Q.,1957-(CARDINAL)271545;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index.Degradation, harshness and mercy -- Contemporary American harshness : rejecting respect for persons -- Continental dignity and mildness -- The continental abolition of degradation -- Low status in the Anglo-American world.Publisher's description: Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading-more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent to prison, and when they are, they serve far shorter terms than their American counterparts. Why is America so comparatively harsh? In this novel work of comparative legal history, James Whitman argues that the answer lies in America's triumphant embrace of a non-hierarchical social system and distrust of state power which have contributed to a law of punishment that is more willing to degrade offenders.1460L
Subjects: Punishment; Punishment; Punishment; Punishment;
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The executed god : the way of the cross in lockdown America / by Taylor, Mark L.(Mark Lewis),1951-(CARDINAL)381590;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-196) and index.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Christianity and justice; Criminal justice, Administration of; Imprisonment; Punishment;
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The punishments of China : ill. by twenty-two engravings: with explanations in English and French / by Mason, George Henry.(CARDINAL)166794;
A culprit before a magistrate -- A culprit conveyed to prison -- A culprit conducted to trial -- An offender undergoing the bastinade -- Twisting a man's ears -- Punishment of the swing -- Punishing a boatman -- Punishing an interpreter -- The rack -- Torturing the fingers -- Burning a man's eyes with lime -- A malefactor chained to an iron bar -- Punishment of the wooden collar -- A man fastened to a block of wood -- A malefactor in a cage -- Punishment of a wooden tube -- Hamstringing a malefactor -- Close confinement -- Conducting an offender into banishment -- A malefactor conducted to execution -- The capital punishment of the cord -- The manner of beheading.
Subjects: Punishment; Crime; Criminals;
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Executed on a technicality : lethal injustice on America's death row / by Dow, David R.(CARDINAL)469464;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-228) and index.The execution of Carl Johnson -- Cesar Fierro's coerced confession -- Johnny Joe Martinez's fatal five minutes -- Some are released, others are executed -- Innocence is not enough -- Interlude : why innocence matters -- How the rule of law became mob rule.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Criminal justice, Administration of; Peine de mort;
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Capital punishment / by Connors, Paul G.(CARDINAL)707108;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index.Is capital punishment an effective deterrent to crime? Yes, capital punishment is an effective deterrent to crime : Capital punishment does in fact deter crime / Joanna M. Shepherd -- Homicidal violence in Great Britain has increased since the abolition of the death penalty / Theodore Dalrymple -- Hanging Saddam Hussein will deter future chaos in Iraq / Patrick Poole -- No, capital punishment is not an effective deterrent to crime : Studeis cannot "prove" capital punishment deters crime / Clive Stafford Smith -- Capital punishment is ineffective and dangerous / Michael Cohen -- Deterrence studies are inconsistent and unscientific / Jeffrey Fagan -- Should capital punishment be abolished or reformed? Executions should be televised to spur debate about capital punishment / Howard Rosenberg -- Capital punishment is a failed experiment and should be abolished / Anna Quindlen -- Feminists should advocated to abolish capital punishment / Laura Huey -- Saddam Hussein should not have been hanged / Richard Dawkins -- Public and state support for the death penalty is declining / Dahlia Lithwick.Is capital punishment ethical? Yes, capital punishment is ethical : When a loved one is murdered, the death penalty seems moral / Olga Polites -- Death by lethal injection is not cruel and unusual punishment / Cal Thomas -- Juvenile executions should be ruled constitutional / Robert H. Bork -- Capital punishment is moral to prevent the taking of innocent lives / Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule -- No, capital punishment is not ethical : Capital punishment is simply murder / Gary Egeberg -- Death by lethal injection is inhumane / Deborah W. Denno -- Putting juvenile murderers to death is wrong / Craig M. Bradley -- Physicians have an ethical responsibility not to participate in executions / Peter A. Clark -- Is capital punishment administered fairly? Yes, capital punishment is administered fairly : The chance of executing an innocent person is very slight / Richard A. Posner -- Capital punishment is administered fairly / Joshua Marquis -- Death row reforms may lead to a fairer criminal justice system / Jean M. Templeton -- No, capital punishment is not administered fairly : Wrongful convictions involving prisoners are too common / C. Ronald Huff -- The death penalty is not applied equally to both sexes / Victor L. Streib -- Scientific evidence does not ensure guilt in death penalty cases / Sheila Jasanoff -- The evidence of innocence is often withheld in death penalty cases / Dale S. Recinella.Gives the pros and cons of capital punishment, the ethical question, and if it's a deterrent to crime.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Capital punishment;
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