Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty by Frank R. Baumgartner

Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty

Frank R. Baumgartner

416 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

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In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the...

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