Capital punishment : strategies for abolition / edited by Peter Hodgkinson and William A. Schabas.

Table of Contents: “…Capital punishment : improve it or remove it / Peter Hodgkinson -- International law and the death penalty : reflecting or promoting change? …”
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Is the Death Penalty Dying? by Sarat, Austin

Table of Contents: “…Evolutionary History: The Changing Purposes for Capital Punishment; Chapter 2. The Heart has its Reasons: Examining the Strange Persistence of the American Death Penalty; Chapter 3. …”
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Is the death penalty dying? : European and American perspectives / edited by Austin Sarat, Jürgen Martschukat.

Table of Contents: “…Transatlantic perspectives on capital punishment : national identity, the death penalty, and the prospects for abolition /…”
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Considering Capital Punishment.

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Capital punishment in Canada : a sociological study of repressive law / David B. Chandler ; general editor Michael Gnarowski ; executive editor James Marsh. by Chandler, David

Table of Contents: “…""Public Opinion and Legislation""""The Death Penalty: Public Opinion and Legislation""; ""The Death Penalty: Public Opinion and Legislation""; ""Some Criteria in Evaluation of Public Opinion Evidence""; ""Some Criteria in Evaluation of Public Opinion Evidence""; ""The Canadian Opinion""; ""The Canadian Opinion""; ""The Measurement of Capital Punishment Opinion""; ""The Measurement of Capital Punishment Opinion""; ""From 1965 to 1972 ""; ""From 1965 to 1972 ""; ""Education and Opinion on the Death Penalty""…”
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Capital punishment in America : race and the death penalty over time / Martin Guevara Urbina. by Urbina, Martin G. (Martin Guevara), 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the contours of capital punishment -- History of U.S. race and ethnic relations -- Death sentencing and death sentence outcomes: review of prior empirical studies -- A case study of three American states -- Research findings for California, Florida, and Texas: a quantitative analysis -- Race, ethnicity, and gender from 1608 to 2010: a qualitative analysis -- Conclusion: transforming an historical culture of executions -- Afterword: the future of capital punishment.…”
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Against capital punishment : the anti-death penalty movement in America, 1972-1994 / Herbert H. Haines. by Haines, Herbert H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Death penalty abolitionism in America -- The fall and rise of capital punishment: 1965-1976 -- The return of the executioner: 1976-1982 -- The reemergence of political abolitionism -- Framing disputes in the movement against capital punishment -- Abolitionism at the crossroads -- Reframing capital punishment: pragmatic abolitionism -- Afterword: Spring, 1999.…”
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The death penalty : an American history / Stuart Banner. by Banner, Stuart, 1963-

Subjects: “…Capital punishment United States History.…”
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The death penalty debate / edited by Justin Healey.

Table of Contents: “…Global abolition of capital punishment. Capital punishment around the world ; Alarming rise in death sentences ; Death sentences and executions ; Five brutal methods of execution ; In less than 40 years, 124 countries have abolished the death penalty - and here's why the rest should end it too ; Countries with and without the death penalty ; United Nations and the abolition of the death penalty ; What do they say about the death penalty? …”
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The death penalty : an American history / Stuart Banner. by Banner, Stuart, 1963-

Subjects: “…Capital punishment United States History.…”
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Daily watch.

Subjects: “…Capital punishment Europe.…”
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The death penalty from an African perspective : views from Zimbabwean and Nigerian philosophers / edited by Fainos Mangena and Jonathan O. Chimakonam.

Table of Contents: “…Aina -- Current Debates on the Death Penalty in Zimbabwe : A Philosophical Appraisal of Views from Critical Stakeholders / Fainos Mangena, Francis Machingura -- An Interrogation of Capital Punishment in Nigeria's Penal System : Towards a Fredom Theory of Punishment in African Philosophy / Jonathan O. …”
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The death penalty and U.S. diplomacy : how foreign nations and international organizations influence U.S. policy / Wesley Kendall, Joseph M. Siracusa. by Kendall, Wesley, 1972-, Siracusa, Joseph M.

Subjects: “…Capital punishment United States.…”
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The next frontier : national development, political change, and the death penalty in Asia / David T. Johnson, Franklin E. Zimring. by Johnson, David T. (David Ted), 1960-

Subjects: “…Capital punishment Asia.…”
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When the state no longer kills : international human rights norms and abolition of capital punishment / Sangmin Bae. by Bae, Sangmin, 1971-

Subjects: “…Capital punishment.…”
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Against the death penalty / Justice Stephen Breyer ; edited by John Bessler. by Breyer, Stephen G., 1938-

Subjects: “…Capital punishment United States.…”
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The abolition of the death penalty in international law / William A. Schabas. by Schabas, William, 1950-

Subjects: “…Capital punishment.…”
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Death by design : capital punishment as social psychological system / Craig Haney. by Haney, Craig

Table of Contents: “…Series Foreword; 1 Blinded by the Death Penalty: The Supreme Court and the Social Realities of Capital Punishment; 2 Frameworks of Misunderstanding: Capital Punishment and the American Media; 3 Constructing Capital Crimes and Defendants: Death Penalty Case-Specific Biases and Their Effects; 4 The Fragile Consensus: Public Opinion and Death Penalty Policy; 5 A Tribunal Organized to Convict and Execute? …”
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Life and death row. producer, Nicola Comber ; filmed and directed by Ellena Wood ; BBC Documentaries production.

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The death penalty in contemporary China / Susan Trevaskes. by Trevaskes, Susan, 1964-

Subjects: “…Capital punishment China.…”
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