Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Death Penalty: Documents Decoded

The Death Penalty: Documents Decoded

Melusky, Joseph
Pesto, Keith

Hardcover

Series: Documents Decoded

CriminologyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1610691946
ISBN13: 9781610691949
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Jan 27 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 2.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.60 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

When is the death penalty considered cruel and unusual punishment or constitutionally permissible? This book exposes readers directly to landmark opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court that strive to answer difficult questions regarding capital punishment.

This book provides far more than an effective overview of the history, current status, and future of capital punishment in America; it supplies excerpts of the words of the justices themselves to make these judicial opinions readily accessible and understandable to general audiences. As a result, readers can see what the justices had to say for themselves regarding more than 30 important cases involving the death penalty--without relying on any intermediary interpretations of their statements. After a brief historical summary of the debate over capital punishment and the arguments favoring and opposing capital punishment, the book decodes how the justices have interpreted and applied constitutional provisions to historical and contemporary controversies. Each case includes brief narrative commentaries inserted by the authors to provide context for the justices' words. Additionally, the excerpted judicial opinions are presented as primary source documents for the reader's inspection and reflection.

Also from

Melusky, Joseph

View All

Also in

General Law

View All