RT Book T1 The death penalty: what's keeping it alive A1 Lyon, Andrea D. 1957- LA English PP Lanham u.a. PB Rowman & Littlefield YR 2015 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1611421721 AB Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The death penalty yesterday and today -- Moral and religious underpinnings of the death penalty -- The media as a messenger of death -- The death penalty as a political tool -- The failure and fate of capital punishment -- Appendix A: Historical timeline of the death penalty -- Appendix B: Countries with and without the death penalty -- Appendix C: States with and without the death penalty -- Index NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN HV8699.U5 SN 9781442232679 K1 Capital Punishment : History : United States K1 USA : Todesstrafe : Geschichte