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Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders' Eighth Amendment
Cruel and Unusual The American Death Penalty and the Founders' Eighth Amendment
Author: John D. Bessler
The conventional wisdom is that the founders were avid death penalty supporters. In this fascinating and insightful examination of America's Eighth Amendment, law professor John D. Bessler explodes this myth and shows the founders' conflicting and ambivalent views on capital punishment. Cruel and Unusual takes the reader back in time to show how...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781555537166
ISBN-10: 1555537162
Publication Date: 1/10/2012
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Northeastern
Book Type: Hardcover
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