The death penalty
By: Hayley R. Mitchell, book editor.
Contributors: Mitchell, Hayley R., 1968-
Series: Contemporary issues companion
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-149) and index.
Table of contents: title: The death penalty and the capital trial / Mark Costanzo & Lawrence. T. White; title: The revival of the American death penealty / Tom Philips; title: The undying problem of the death penalty / Hiller B. Zobel; title: The Supreme Court and the death penalty / David O. Stewart; title: Anger and ambivalence / David A. Kaplan; title: Why Americans approve of the death penalty / Christopher Hitchens; title: The death penalty as a communal response to evil / David Gelernter; title: Ensuring justice with the death penalty / George E. Pataki; title: The case against the death penalty / Carol Fennelly; title: The death penalty can be administered fairly / John McAdams; title: The death penalty cannot be administered fairly / Leigh B. Bienen; title: Racial discrimination and the administration of the death penalty / Stanley Rothman & Stephen Powers; title: Women are often unfairly sentenced to death / Whitney George; title: Women on death row are rarely executed / Mark Hansen; title: The wrong men on death row / Joseph P. Shapiro; title: Mistaken executions cannot be corrected / Jonathan Rauch; title: One man's long battle on death row / Tena Jamison Lee; title: Sending a man to die / Alex Kozinski; title: The death of Robert Alton Harris / Michael Kroll; title: A test of faith: witnessing a friend's execution / William Vance Trolinger, jr.