The state has no greater power over its own citizens than that of killing them. This book examines the use of that supreme sanction in Germany, from the sevente

This history of capital punishment in Germany deals with the politics of the death penalty and the cultural significance of executions. Insight into the modern

The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punis

Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting t

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