Covers issues in both historical and contemporary context, with information on race and ethnicity and their impact on crime and the administration of justice.
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A comprehensive history of the death penalty in the United States, documenting over four-hundred years of dramatic changes in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced.
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Analysis of the reasons why the death penalty remains active in most states, in spite of well-documented flaws in the justice system.
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects data on persons held under sentence of death and persons executed during the calendar year from the state department of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.