Capital Ideas: 150 Classic Writers on the Death Penalty, from the Code of Hammurabi to Clarence Darrow
People have been thinking, writing, speaking, arguing and legislating about the death penalty since humans first recorded their ideas with chisel and stone. This anthology includes 151 classic writings about the death penalty, covering a span of almost 4,000 years. The entries were selected to...
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People have been thinking, writing, speaking, arguing and legislating about the death penalty since humans first recorded their ideas with chisel and stone. This anthology includes 151 classic writings about the death penalty, covering a span of almost 4,000 years. The entries were selected to illustrate the diversity of thought about capital punishment, to provide a resource for tracing its intellectual history, and to provide surprisingly fresh ideas that can inform our contemporary conversations.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781449511760 (1449511767)
Publish date: September 25th 2009
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
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