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Feb 08, 2016
In her new book, Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases, Marshall University Anthropology Professor Robin Conley examines “how language filters, restricts, and at times is used to m…
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Nov 06, 2015
Calling the punishment “simply wrong,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has vowed to “never stop calling for an end to the death penalty.” Speaking at the launch of a new book by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,…
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Sep 16, 2015
In his new book, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, and in media interviews accompanying its release, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer discusses the relationship between Americ…
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Jul 06, 2015
Through the lens of a 1927 murder and the ensuing trials of three suspects, An Evil Day in Georgia examines the death penalty system in Prohibition-era Georgia. James Hugh Moss, a black man, and Clifford Thompson, a white…
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May 15, 2015
The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective by Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle, now in its Fifth Edition, is “widely regarded as the leading authority on the death penalty in its international context.” The book explores the movement …
