Library Guides: Capital Punishment: Books

LC Subject Headings

Many books on the topic will be under the following subject headings or their narrower terms. Some subject headings that may be useful include:

The death penalty : an opposing viewpoints guide

Editor: William Dudley

Published: 2006

ISBN: 0737732083

Racial prejudice, juror empathy, and sentencing in death penalty cases

Author: Bryan Edelman

Published: 2006

ISBN: 1593321279

Rebel and a cause : Caryl Chessman and the politics of the death penalty in postwar California, 1948-1974

Author: Theodore Hamm

Published: 2001

ISBN: 0520224272

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