Capital Punishment
- ISBN-10
- 0761415874
- ISBN-13
- 9780761415879
- Series
- Capital Punishment
- Category
- Capital punishment
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Marshall Cavendish
- Author
- Ron Fridell
Description
Describes the capital punishment system in the United States and efforts to make it more just and humane, and examines the positions of supporters and opponents of the death penalty.
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