Death penalty cases
Subtitle: leading U.S. Supreme Court cases on capital punishment
By: Barry Latzer.
Contributors: United States. Supreme Court.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States -- Cases.
Description: "Death Penalty Cases, Second Edition offers full but carefully edited excerpts from 25 United States Supreme Court cases on capital punishment. The author provides an unbiased collection of seminal death penalty cases in the United States along with helpful introductory comments specially prepared for each case. The result is an objective resource that lays out the legal, philosophical, and criminological issues surrounding the debate on capital punishment."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.