Cruel & unusual : the American death penalty and the founders' Eighth Amendment / John D. Bessler.
2012
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Author
Title
Cruel & unusual : the American death penalty and the founders' Eighth Amendment / John D. Bessler.
Published
Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Call Number
KF9227.C2 B478 2012
ISBN
9781555537166 (cloth : alk. paper)
1555537162 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781555537173 (ebook)
1555537170 (ebook)
1555537162 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781555537173 (ebook)
1555537170 (ebook)
Description
xiv, 456 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)712117835
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-415) and index.
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Cruel and unusual
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1.
In Cold Blood
12
2.
On Crimes and Punishments
31
3.
The Abolitionists
66
4.
America's Founding Fathers
97
5.
The Eighth Amendment
162
6.
Capital Punishment in America
222
7.
The Road to Abolition
265
Conclusion
339
Notes
349
Bibliography
405
Index
417