Capital punishment in America
Subtitle: race and the death penalty over time
By: Martin Guevara Urbina
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781593324452
Subjects: Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the contours of capital punishment; title: History of U.S. race and ethnic relations; title: Death sentencing and death sentence outcomes: review of prior empirical studies; title: A case study of three American states; title: Research findings for California, Florida, and Texas: a quantitative analysis; title: Race, ethnicity, and gender from 1608 to 2010: a qualitative analysis; title: Conclusion: transforming an historical culture of executions; title: Afterword: the future of capital punishment.