TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gershman,Gary P.
TI  - Death penalty on trial: a handbook with cases, laws, and documents 
T2  - ABC-CLIO's On trial series
SN  - 1851096116 (electronic bk.)
AV  - KF9227.C2 G47 2005
U1  - 345.73/0773 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Santa Barbara, Calif.
PB  - ABC-CLIO
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Peine de mort
KW  - �Etats-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - LAW
KW  - Criminal Law
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Todesstrafe
KW  - swd
KW  - USA
KW  - USA (Law)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Historical background -- Cases -- Impact and legacy -- Documents -- Key people, laws, and concepts
N2  - This handbook sifts through the rhetoric, politics and emotion that characterize one of the most discussed, yet least understood issues in 21st century America. Placing the death penalty in a historical perspective, this introduction explains the legal theory that has perpetuated it
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