Crime and Detection: Death Row and Capital Punishment

For the ultimate crime, the ultimate punishment: what higher price could be paid than death? Yet what other sanction could there be for the criminal who does not shrink from murder? Captial punishment - the application of the death sentence - is one of the most controversial aspects of America's criminal justice system, opponents claiming that it is inappropriate to the world's greatest democracy. yet, as this fascinating introduction shows, the death penalty, although many thousands of years old, has changed beyond recognition in the history of modern America.