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The courts, the Constitution, and capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau.

Title
  1. The courts, the Constitution, and capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau.
Published by
  1. Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, ©1977.
Author
  1. Bedau, Hugo Adam

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Description
  1. xx, 165 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Capital punishment
  2. Capital punishment > United States
  3. Constitutional law
  4. Constitutional law > United States
  5. Droit constitutionnel > États-Unis
  6. Peine de mort > États-Unis
  7. Todesstrafe
  8. USA
  9. USA
  10. United States
Contents
  1. List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Issue of Capital Punishment -- The Courts, the Constitution, and Capital Punishment -- Deterrence and the Death Penalty -- The Death Penalty in America: Review and Forecast -- The Politics of Death -- Challenging the Death Penalty -- New Research and Literature Since Furman -- Are Mandatory Capital Statutes Unconstitutional? -- New Life for the Death Penalty -- Epilogue: A Right to Die by Firing Squad? -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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