Capital Punishment at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study on the Evolution of the Use of the Death Penalty in the United States and the United Kingdom

Capital punishment (sometimes referred to as the death penalty) is the carrying out of a legal sentence of death as punishment for crime. The United States Supreme Court has most recently ruled that capital punishment is not unconstitutional. As a result, states are free to abstain from using capita...

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Autor principal: Gaines, Rachel (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
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Publicado: 2015
En:Año: 2015
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