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xiv, 584 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 565-574. |
| Contents |
Offenses punishable by death / Hugo A. Bedau -- Juveniles and capital punishment / The New York Times -- Volume and rate of capital crimes / Hugo A. Bedau -- A sociological analysis of criminal homicide / Marvin E. Wolfgang -- The death sentence, 1960 / James A. McCafferty -- Executions 1962 / Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice -- Christianity and the death penalty / Jacob J. Vellenga -- Statements in favor of the death penalty / J. Edgar Hoover -- Capital punishment: Your protection and mine / Edward J. Allen -- The death sentence / Sindey Hook -- In favor of capital punishment / Jacques Barzun -- Judaism and the death penalty / Israel J. Kazis -- A Protestant's view of the death penalty / Charles S. Milligan -- Statement against capital punishment / Donal E.J. Macnamara -- Is the death penalty unconsitiutional? / Gerald H. Gottlieb -- Death as a punishment / Hugo A. Bedau -- Public opinion and the death penalty / The American Institute of Public Opinion -- Attitudes of wardens toward the death penalty / Donald R. Campion -- Death and imprisonment as deterrents to murder / Thorsten Sellin -- Does the death penalty protect municipal police? Thorsten Sellin -- Does the death penalty protect state police? / Donald R. Campion -- The deterrent effct of capital punishment in Philadelpia / Leonard D. Savitz -- The deterrent effect of capital punishment in California / William F. Graves -- Effect of repeal and reintroduction of the death penalty on homicide rates / Thorsten Sellin -- Abolition and restoration of the death penalty in Oregon / Robert H. Dann -- Abolition and restoration of the death penalty in Missouri / Ellen Elizabeth Guillot -- Abolition and restoration of the death penalty in Delaware / Herbert L. Cobin -- The struggle over capital punishment in New Jersey / Hugo A. Bedau -- Parole of capital offenders, recidivism and life imprisonment / Hugo A. Bedau -- The death penalty and the administration of justice / Herbert B. Ehrmann -- Murder, errors of justice, and capital punishment / Hugo A. Bedau -- executions and connutatons in North Carolina / Elmer H. Johnson -- Executions and commutations in Pennsylvania / Marvin E. Wolfgang, Arlene Kelly, and Hans C. Nolde -- The human side of capital punishment / Sara R. Ehrmann -- Crime of passion / John Bartlow Martin -- The making of a boy killer / Ira Henry Freeman -- Rehabilitation on death row / Ronald Bailey. |
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Capital punishment -- United States.
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Capital punishment. |
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United States. |
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