{"id":4724,"date":"2011-09-25T11:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2011-09-25T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:26:47","slug":"death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of September 26, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Death Penalty<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News: <\/em>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Autobiography of an Execution
\n<\/em><\/strong>By David R. Dow. Twelve, 2010
\nCall Number: KF373 .D635 A3 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

China\u2019s Death Penalty: History, Law, and Contemporary Practices
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Hong Lu and Terance D. Miethe. Routledge, 2007
\nCall Number: HV8699 .C6 L8 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle. Oxford University Press, 2008
\nCall Number: HV8694 .H657 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

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Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Bary Latzer. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011
\nCall Number: KF9227 .C2 L38 2010<\/a> (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Eligible for Execution: The Story of the Daryl Atkins Case
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Thomas G. Walker. CQ Press, 2009
\nCall Number: KF224 .A85 W35 2009<\/a> (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Execution at Midnight <\/em><\/strong>(VHS)
\n<\/em><\/strong>Directed by Jim Thebaut. New Video Group, 1993
\nCall Number: VH 3756 (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gilbert King. Basic Civitas Books, 2008
\nCall Number: HV8699 .U5 K55 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Elizabeth Beck, Sarah Britto, and Arlene Andres. Oxford University Press, 2007
\nCall Number: Available online via EBSCOhost<\/a><\/p>\n

The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates
\n<\/em><\/strong>By John Temple. University Press of Mississippi, 2009
\nCall Number: KF373 .R652 T46 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Law of Capital Punishment
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Margaret C. Jasper. Oceana, 2008
\nCall Number: KF9227 .C2 J37 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Life Imprisonment Without the Possibility of Parole: The Alternative to the Death Penalty
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Elienne Anoriscat. Honors College Student Thesis, 2009
\nCall Number: NX00.5 .A567 2009<\/a> (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

Murder and Its Consequences: Essays on Capital Punishment in America
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Leigh Buchanan Bienen
\nCall Number: KF9227 .C2 B54 2010<\/a> (At Jupiter)<\/p>\n

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Susan Kuklin. Henry Holt and Co., 2008
\nCall Number: HV8699 .U5 K84 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

No Tomorrow<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>(streaming video)
\nDirected by Roger Weisberg and Vanessa Roth. Filmakers Library, 2010
\nCall Number: Available online via Filmakers Library Online<\/a><\/p>\n

Old Enough to Kill: Too Young to Die?: Evaluating Public Opinion of the Juvenile Death Penalty
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Kristen Chase. Honors College Student Thesis, 2009
\nCall Number: NX00.5 .C5215 2009<\/a> (At Jupiter) (Also available online via Digital Collections & FAU Libraries<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Peculiar Institution: America\u2019s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
\n<\/em><\/strong>By David Garland. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
\nCall Number: HV8699 .U5 G36 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Prison City: Life with the Death Penalty in Huntsville, Texas
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Ruth Massingill & Ardyth Broadrick Sohn. Peter Lang, 2007
\nCall Number: HV9481 .H82 M37 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Public Executions: The Death Penalty and the Media
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Christopher S. Kudlac. Praeger, 2007
\nCall Number: Available online via EBSCOhost<\/a><\/p>\n

Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb. State University of New York Press, 2008
\nCall Number: HV8699 .U5 A725 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Race to Execution<\/em><\/strong> (streaming video)
\n<\/em>Directed by Rachel V. Lyon. Filmakers Library, 2007
\nCall Number: Available online via Filmakers Library Online<\/a><\/p>\n

Stay of Execution: Saving the Death Penalty from Itself
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Charles Lane. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010
\nCall Number: Available online via EBSCOhost<\/a><\/p>\n

The Top Ten Death Penalty Myths: The Politics of Crime Control
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Rudolph J. Gerber and John M. Johnson. Praeger, 2007
\nCall Number: Available online via EBSCOhost<\/p>\n

Wrongful Death Sentences: Rethinking Justice in Capital Cases
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Cathleen Burnett. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010
\nCall Number: KF9227 .C2 B87 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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