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Capital punishment / editor, David Simonelli.

Contributor Simonelli, David, editor.

ImprintIpswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]

Imprint2019.

Description2 volumes (x, 377 pages) : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Note:Volume 1. Constitutional Questions -- Great Muscovite Law Code -- Eighth Amendment -- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Dissent in Hurtado v. California -- Illinois State Code -- Furman v. Georgia -- Gregg v. Georgia -- Woodson v. North Carolina -- Coker v. Georgia -- Dissent in Callins v. Collins -- Ring v. Arizona -- ACLU: The Case against the Death Penalty -- California Proposition 66 -- Mental Capacity and Age -- Ford v. Wainwright -- Atkins v. Virginia -- Roper v. Simmons -- "The Death Penalty for Juveniles" -- Aileen Wuornos Execution -- Hall v. Florida -- New Report: Prisoners on Arkansas's Execution List Defined by Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability, and Bad Lawyering --

Note:Volume 2. Race -- Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States -- Witherspoon v. Illinois -- McCleskey v. Kemp -- Amnesty International, "The Death Penalty: Questions and Answers" -- Kennedy v. Louisiana -- Buck v. Davis -- Tharpe v. Sellers -- Methods -- Wilkerson v. Utah -- In Re Kemmler -- News Accounts of First Execution by Electric Chair -- Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber -- Amicus Curiae in Baze v. Rees -- Baze v. Rees -- Glossip v. Gross -- American Nurses Association Position Statement, Capital Punishment and Nurses' Participation in Capital Punishment -- Pfizer's Position on Use of Our Products in Lethal Injections for Capital Punishment -- Revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Death Penalty, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-367) and index.

Note:Offers analysis of over thirty documents, including letters, memoirs, newspaper accounts, book excerpts, speeches, court rulings, legal texts, and legislative acts.

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Simonelli, David, editor.
Series Statement
Defining documents in American history
Subject:
Capital punishment -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- History -- Sources.
United States -- Trials, litigation, etc -- Sources.
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Primary sources.
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Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)