Death penalty cases

by Barry Latzer

"Death Penalty Cases, Second Edition offers full but carefully edited excerpts from 25 United States Supreme Court cases on capital punishment. The author provides an unbiased collection of seminal death penalty cases in the United States along with helpful introductory comments specially prepared for each case. The result is an objective resource that lays out the legal, philosophical, and criminological issues surrounding the debate on capital punishment."--Jacket.