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Death Penalty Debate
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Websites
- Almanac of Policy Issues Provides a listing of background information on current issues such as abortion, clean air, death penalty, etc.
- Punishment and the Death Penalty From the University of San Diego, this site is a selected list of Internet, video, audio, and print resources related to punishment in general and capital punishment in particular.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States, which are presented in over 600 tables.
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Nonfiction
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Flanders, Stephen A. Capital Punishment. New York: Facts on File, c1991. Reviews the history and current status of the death penalty in the U.S., focusing on the legal and ethical issues of its use by the criminal justice system.
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Feinman, Jay M. Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System. 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Provides an introduction to the law, covering the basic subjects lawyers learn in the first year of law school, including constitutional law, civil rights, civil procedure, and the litigation process, torts, contracts, property, criminal law, and criminal procedure; and features real-life examples of the law in action.
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Juvenile Justice. Detroit, Mich.: Greenhaven Press, c2009.
Contains overviews of four cases involving juvenile justice, each followed by articles that examine controversies and issues related to the trial, providing insights into the state's role as parent, the right to due process for juveniles, the balance between the right to individual privacy and school safety, and the death penalty for juvenile offenders.
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Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment?: The Experts on Both Sides Make their Best Case. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Presents the arguments of seven lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and philosophers for and against the death penalty, and includes Illinois governor George Ryan's 2003 speech in which he commuted all of his state's death sentences.
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Gershman, Gary P. Death Penalty on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2005.
Examines the controversies surrounding the death penalty in the United States, providing a review of landmark court decision, explanations on the judicial reasoning both for and against the death penalty, an overview of key laws, and more.
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Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Sister Helen Prejean's story of her encounter with the death penalty in America.
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Reference
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Feinberg, Barbara Silberdick. The Dictionary of the U. S. Constitution. New York: Franklin Watts, c1999.
A dictionary of terms and concepts related to the U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court decisions that have interpreted it.
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The Encyclopedia of American Law. New York: Facts on File, c2002.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics related to American law, covering legal issues, terms, concepts, court cases, history, and people.
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