Capital Punishment

<p><b>This authoritative balanced and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America including its history its legal and cultural foundations and racial and economic factors in its application.</b> <p/>This carefully crafted primer on the history and present state of capital punishment in the United States examines cultural political and legal factors and developments as well as key figures groups and movements by consolidating a wide variety of material into a single convenient source. <p/>Utilizing a rich and varied array of scholarship and primary sources this work examines historical political cultural and legal factors and developments that have shaped the contours of capital punishment throughout American history. It examines key figures and organizations who have played pivotal roles in debates over the death penalty; provides readers with illuminating coverage of laws cases and the people involved; discusses the experiences of death row inmates; and explores questions and controversies revolving around the socioeconomic factors that influence the use of capital punishment.</p>