Cruel & Unusual

Cruel & Unusual

The American Death Penalty and the Founders' Eighth Amendment

by John D. Bessler

456 pages· 2012· ISBN 9781555537173
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This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalty based on the notion of cruel and unusual punishment

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