DeathQuest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States

Abstract

1. History of the Death Penalty in the United States: The Pre-Modern Period (1608-1972) 2. Capital Punishment and the Supreme Court: The Pre-Modern Period 3. The Challenge to Capital Punishment's Legality 4. Capital Punishment and the Supreme Court: The Modern Period 5. The Death Penalty at the Federal Level, in the Military, and Globally 6. Methods of Execution 7. General Deterrence and the Death Penalty 8. Incapacitation and Economic Costs of Capital Punishment 9. Miscarriages of Justice and the Death Penalty 10. Arbitrariness and Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty 11. Retribution, Religion, and Capital Punishment 12. American Death Penalty Opinion

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