Authors: Ernest Van den Haag, John Phillips Conrad
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-29 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceedings challenging the death penalty on constitutional grounds. After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally