Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached

This fourth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punis

As the death penalty clings to life in many states and dies off in others, this first-of-its-kind ethnography takes readers inside capital trials across the Uni

Before constitutional regulation -- The Supreme Court steps in -- The invisibility of race in the constitutional revolution -- Between the Supreme Court and the

Presents opposing viewpoints on the purpose, morality, deterrent influence, and application of the death penalty.