Legal homicide
Subtitle: death as punishment in America, 1864-1982
By: William J. Bowers, with Glenn L. Pierce and John F. McDevitt ; foreword by Henry Schwarzschild.
Contributors: Pierce, Glenn L.; McDevitt, John F.; Bowers, William J.
Publisher: Northeastern University Press; Northeasten University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 614
Subjects: Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States.; Executions and executioners -- United States.; Race discrimination -- United States.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [533]-603.
Rev. ed. of: Executions in America. 1974.
Includes index.