The Death Penalty: Debating Capital Punishment
- ISBN-10
- 0766016889
- ISBN-13
- 9780766016880
- Series
- The Death Penalty
- Category
- Capital punishment
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Enslow Pub Incorporated
- Author
- Thomas Streissguth
Description
Discusses the death penalty debate, exploring the issues of several controversial cases, and describes new developments in science and technology that are changing the way guilt and innocence are decided.
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- 2017-12-15
- 106 pages
- Paperback
- Greenhaven Publishing LLC
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