Week of September 26, 2011
Death Penalty
In the News: With the recent executions of Troy Davis in Georgia and Lawrence Brewer in Texas, discussions of the pros and cons of capital punishment have been cropping up in the news media and blogosphere and through social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
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The Autobiography of an Execution
By David R. Dow. Twelve, 2010
Call Number: KF373 .D635 A3 2010
China’s Death Penalty: History, Law, and Contemporary Practices
By Hong Lu and Terance D. Miethe. Routledge, 2007
Call Number: HV8699 .C6 L8 2007
The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective
By Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle. Oxford University Press, 2008
Call Number: HV8694 .H657 2008
Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment
By Bary Latzer. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011
Call Number: KF9227 .C2 L38 2010 (At Jupiter)
Eligible for Execution: The Story of the Daryl Atkins Case
By Thomas G. Walker. CQ Press, 2009
Call Number: KF224 .A85 W35 2009 (At Jupiter)
Execution at Midnight (VHS)
Directed by Jim Thebaut. New Video Group, 1993
Call Number: VH 3756 (Boca Raton Media Center)
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
By Gilbert King. Basic Civitas Books, 2008
Call Number: HV8699 .U5 K55 2008
In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
By Elizabeth Beck, Sarah Britto, and Arlene Andres. Oxford University Press, 2007
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost
The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates
By John Temple. University Press of Mississippi, 2009
Call Number: KF373 .R652 T46 2009
The Law of Capital Punishment
By Margaret C. Jasper. Oceana, 2008
Call Number: KF9227 .C2 J37 2008
Life Imprisonment Without the Possibility of Parole: The Alternative to the Death Penalty
By Elienne Anoriscat. Honors College Student Thesis, 2009
Call Number: NX00.5 .A567 2009 (At Jupiter)
Murder and Its Consequences: Essays on Capital Punishment in America
By Leigh Buchanan Bienen
Call Number: KF9227 .C2 B54 2010 (At Jupiter)
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
By Susan Kuklin. Henry Holt and Co., 2008
Call Number: HV8699 .U5 K84 2008
No Tomorrow (streaming video)
Directed by Roger Weisberg and Vanessa Roth. Filmakers Library, 2010
Call Number: Available online via Filmakers Library Online
Old Enough to Kill: Too Young to Die?: Evaluating Public Opinion of the Juvenile Death Penalty
By Kristen Chase. Honors College Student Thesis, 2009
Call Number: NX00.5 .C5215 2009 (At Jupiter) (Also available online via Digital Collections & FAU Libraries)
Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
By David Garland. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
Call Number: HV8699 .U5 G36 2010
Prison City: Life with the Death Penalty in Huntsville, Texas
By Ruth Massingill & Ardyth Broadrick Sohn. Peter Lang, 2007
Call Number: HV9481 .H82 M37 2007
Public Executions: The Death Penalty and the Media
By Christopher S. Kudlac. Praeger, 2007
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost
Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History
By Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb. State University of New York Press, 2008
Call Number: HV8699 .U5 A725 2008
Race to Execution (streaming video)
Directed by Rachel V. Lyon. Filmakers Library, 2007
Call Number: Available online via Filmakers Library Online
Stay of Execution: Saving the Death Penalty from Itself
By Charles Lane. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost
The Top Ten Death Penalty Myths: The Politics of Crime Control
By Rudolph J. Gerber and John M. Johnson. Praeger, 2007
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost
Wrongful Death Sentences: Rethinking Justice in Capital Cases
By Cathleen Burnett. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010
Call Number: KF9227 .C2 B87 2010