Presents discussion and debate on topics related to the death penalty, including whether it is just, ethical, acts as a deterrent to crime, is misused against minorities or juveniles, or should be abolished.

Join the team of Scarefactory in Columbus, Ohio, as they recreate history's various weapons, customs, and devices to see if they can understand the time period as well as see if they could have survived them.

David Gale era un miembro activo de Deathwatch, un grupo activista en contra de la pena de muerte. Constance era una activista compan?era de Deathwatch. Cuando se encuentra a Constance violada y asesinada, Gale es condenado del crimen. Ahora Gale espera la ejecucio´n, y con menos que una semana antes su cita con la inyeccio´n fatal, Gale consiente en decir su historia a Bitsy, una periodista presuntuosa de una revista de noticias mayor. Cuando ella...

This book examines critical debates on the death penalty, presenting arguments for and against the death penalty and discussing legislation that has shaped this controversial issue at the present time.

A princess is banished from a magical animated land and finds herself in modern-day Manhattan, where a cynical man comes to her rescue.

"Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked, arrested,...

Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view.

Cleo Arlington dresses like a cowboy, is fearless and fun-loving, and can ride, rope, and wrangle a horse as well as any man. In 1916, however, those talents aren't what most young women aspire to. But Cleo isn't most women. Twenty-nine years old and single, Cleo loves life on her father's Idaho ranch. Still, she hopes someday to marry and have children. Enter Sherwood Statham, an English aristocrat whose father has sentenced him to a year of work...

Discusses capital punishment, whether it is applied fairly to everyone, and whether it does any good.