[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

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