Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The death penalty yesterday and today -- Moral and religious underpinnings of the death penalty -- The media as a messenger of death -- The death penalty as a political tool -- The failure and fate of capital punishment -- Appendix A: Historical timeline of the death penalty -- Appendix B: Countries with and without the death penalty -- Appendix C: States with and without the death penalty -- Index.
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