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Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty

By Oxford University Press / Frank Baumgartner, on 1 January 2017


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Provides a comprehensive statistical assessment of how the death penalty has been applied over the entire modern period, 1976 to present

  • Document type Book
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Penalty, Statistics,



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