"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 website to shows its view points on the death penalty by using graphic pictures. This website is also very informational, it tells whose recieved the death penalty and what form was used on them.

This website explains the death penalty, how it works, what crimes you have to commit to get the electric chair, etc.

This page describes how the death penalty started and where it began. It also tells how its changed since the 1900's.

This website is on about.com. It's by Kimberly and Albrecht Powell. It talks about capital punishment in the state of Pennsylvania. It gives historic facts about lynching (hanging), the electric chair, and lethal injection.