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Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.

In The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject, provides a comprehensive source-book on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well. No mere revision of the third edition of The Death Penalty in America (1982) this volume brings together an entirely new selection of 40 essays and includes updated statistical and research...

This book covers capital punishment in the United States, an issue that has been increasingly in the news since the late 1980s, when anti-crime and anti-drug legislation saw a flurry of activity. States such as Texas and Arizona have created an international outcry over their executions. Recent widespread media coverage of the reassessment of the fairness of the death penalty has continued to flourish both within and outside the United States borders. Presenta...

A professor of social psychology explores the history of execution in America, weighing its social costs, discussing its potential benefits and problems, and building a new model for understanding the politics behind the death penalty.

Examines and explains the laws of capital punishment as they exist in the United States as of 1998, focusing primarily on issues that are resolved after a defendant has been convicted of a capital crime.

The author, a constitutional scholar, examines the way the Supreme Court has dealt with the death penalty from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.