Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment

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Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment is written by Mark Grossman and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0874368715 (ISBN 10) and 9780874368710 (ISBN 13).

Considers the history of state-sanctioned homicide from the 17th century BCE to the present. Most of the entries are people who were executed or had some impact on the debate or practice. Other topics include breaking on the wheel, court cases, the electric chair, the Molly Maquires, the Nuremberg war crimes defendants, purge trials, race, and theories of retribution and deterrence. Includes a general and entry-specific bibliographies, and a chronology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR