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Article: Capital Punishment in the United States - A Documentary History.
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
- Author:
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Perhaps no issue in American culture has been as passionately debated as capital punishment. Academicians, lawmakers, correctional experts and concerned citizens all have become active in offering their, at times, unbridled ideology. This controversial issue has spawned an overabundance of texts, many of which are preachy and eminently opinionated. This is not the case with Bryan Vila's and Cynthia Morris' Capital Punishment in the United States - A Documentary History.
Early in this text, the editors explicitly declare that their purpose is to provide an impartial volume examining all areas of capital punishment in a nonadversarial manner and to explore the ...