This book is a great source if you want to know who has recieved the death chair. It dates back to the 1900's. It also tells you why, when and how the person recieved the death penalty.

"The primary purpose of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive A to Z source of information on the legal, social and political history and present status of capital punishment in the nation" quoted from the preface on page 1 of the book. You will also find useful court cases, dates, graphs, and pictures on the death penalty in this book.

This book is good for law students or criminal justice professionals who are studing the death penalty. This book does not explain why the death penalty is not moral, wise, or effective. It is not to tell why such a horrible thing is justice either. It's simply to explain what the death penalty is and how it works. The author does this by laying out the whole process from the history and evolution to the clemency and execution.

"In this book, while we touch on some of the questions just posed, our main focus is neither philosophical, nor procedural, and nor is it regimespecific." quote from the book's preface. Also in this book there are specifics articles on capital punishment.

This book tells about the different methods of the death penalty such as beheading, hanging, firing squad, etc. It also is ordered A-Z so things are easy to find if your working on a specific topic.

This is a book contains facts, documents, overviews, and biographical sketches about the death penalty. It's a great source if you want to write an argumentative report on the different views of the death penalty. It's great because it gives good reasons for capital punishment and good reasons why it should be abolished.