The death penalty today / 
edited by Robert M. Bohm. 
 - xvi, 224 page :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Errors in capital cases and what can be done about them -- Scrutinizing the death penalty : state death penalty study commissions and their recommendations -- Themes of wrongful executions in the post-Furman era -- Making it work : compensation for the wrongfully convicted -- A painless cocktail? The lethal injection controversy -- Assessing scholarly opinion of capital punishment : the experts speak -- Police managers' attitudes toward capital punishment -- The United States can't televise an execution because it will make condemned men feel bad about the death penalty : issues raised by the suit to make McVeigh's execution public -- "Let's do it!" : an analysis of consensual executions -- Some hypotheses about capital punishment and lynching. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781420070118 1420070118 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA809135  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014500508  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment--United States.<br/>Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF9227.C2  / D43 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>343.16321073