Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached

This fourth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punis

"Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qu

This collection asks questions about the received wisdom of the debate about capital punishment. Woven through the book, questions are asked of, and remedies pr

As the death penalty clings to life in many states and dies off in others, this first-of-its-kind ethnography takes readers inside capital trials across the Uni