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Inside the Death Chamber: Exploring Executions [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 160 pages, height x width x depth: 151x228x12 mm, weight: 218 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 19-Aug-2003
  • Izdevniecība: Pearson
  • ISBN-10: 020535257X
  • ISBN-13: 9780205352579
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 160 pages, height x width x depth: 151x228x12 mm, weight: 218 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 19-Aug-2003
  • Izdevniecība: Pearson
  • ISBN-10: 020535257X
  • ISBN-13: 9780205352579
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Based on teaching a course on capital punishment and witnessing executions, Gillespie (Weber State College) presents issues in the US debate over the death penalty in question-and-answer format. This supplementary text includes discussion questions, a death row inmate's perspective, illustrations of execution methods (even for animals in the past!), political cartoons, and a roster of Federal executions. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


1. Personal Questions.

Do You Have Nightmares from Watching People Die?
Are You For or Against the Death Penalty?


2. General Questions.

Why Are There 13 Steps to the Gallows? (Magic, Superstition and Ritual)
Why Have Animals and Inanimate Objects Been Executed?
How Many Women Have Been Executed?


3. Process Questions.

What Is It Like to Live on Death Row?
How Do They Spend Their Last Hours?
What Is the Most Humane Method of Execution?
What Happens to the Body After an Execution?
Who Does the Executing and Why Isn't It Public?
What Are Clemencies, Commutations, and Pardons?
What Is a Federal Execution?


4. Issues Questions.

What Happens When Things Go Wrong?
Why Does It Cost So Much?
How Old was the Youngest Person Executed?
Have Innocent People Been Executed?


5. Conclusion: What Have I Learned?

Appendix A. Federal Executions.
Appendix B. Q & A for a Death Row Inmate.