Capital punishment in America / Raymond Paternoster.
1991
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Author
Title
Capital punishment in America / Raymond Paternoster.
Published
New York : Lexington Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1991]
Copyright
©1991
Call Number
HV8699.U5 P37 1991
ISBN
0669214094 (alk. paper)
0669219932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0669219932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)23286137
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-298) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Pt. I
Introduction
1
1Executions in the United States
3
Pt. II
Constitutional and Legal Issues in Capital Punishment
35
2Legal Challenges to and Reform of the Death Penalty
I The Road to Gregg v. Georgia
37
3Legal Challenges to and Reform of the Death Penalty
II Beyond Gregg v. Georgia
75
Pt. III
The Fair and Rational Imposition of the Death Penalty
113
4Racial Discrimination and the Death Penalty
115
5Arbitrariness in the Administration of Capital Statutes after Furman v. Georgia
161
Pt. IV
Arguments For and Against the Death Penalty
185
6The Cost of Life and Death
187
7Public Protection and the Death Penalty
217
8Death as Deserved Punishment
246
Pt. V
An Alternative to Capital Punishment
271
9Future Trends and Prospects for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in the United States
273
References
289
Index
299
About the Author
309