The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective

Earlier editions of this book by Prof. Roger Hood have been hugely expanded and transformed with the addition of the input from his co-author and Oxford University colleague, Carolyn Hoyle. What was already an essential work for anyone remotely interested in the field thus becomes a must-read for a broader audience - frankly, anyone who cares about justice and human rights. The breadth and scale of the authors' accomplishment is quite breathtaking. Want to know about execution methods and the fairness of trials in Iran or Nigeria? You'll find the answers here, together, of course, with a lucid and in some ways damning exposition of the use of the death penalty in the country that attracts most attention, the United States. Legal, ethical and historical factors are all explained with intellectual clarity and limpid prose. SUPERB.