Reflections on Capital Punishment

Authored by the Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, this powerful article reviews the many different arguments against the death penalty and uses a multitude of case discussions to show how the death penalty works, not in theory, but in practice. Some of these arguments include...

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Autor principal: Warden, Rob (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2009
En:Año: 2009
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