Capital punishment /  [print] 
edited by Grant S. McClellan. 
 - New York :  H.W. Wilson,  (c)1961. 
 - 180 pages ;  20 cm. 
 - The Reference shelf ;  v. 32, no. 6 .
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<br/><br/> Current status of the death penalty  --  A sharp medicine reconsidered  A fading practice  --  Capital punishment? Yes  Capital punishment? No  Death is not the answer  A Christian's view  Five major issues  Statement of the league to abolish capital punishment  Function of capital punishment  --  A minority report  The state should not kill  --  Trend toward abolition  What the public thinks  The death penalty today  Psychiatric opinions  A British viewpoint  Statement  Statement  The chessman case  --  Record of delays : coincidence or what?  An editor's view of the Chessman case  Sentimental versus scientific viewpoint  The imperative to punish  The penalty worse than death  Parole : the issue and the promise  Verdict guilty : now what?  Evelle J. Younger  --  John B.S. Edwards  --  John Drinkwater  --  Ernest Havemann  --  Nevin E. Kendell  --  Herbert Wechsler  --  Donal E.J. MacNamara  --  John R. Sennott, Jr. and Thomas J. Riley  --  Donald R. Campion  --  George Gallup  --  Hugo Adam Bedau  --  Emma Harrison  --  Woodrow Wyatt  --  Michael V. DiSalle  --  Edmund G. Brown  --  Mrs. Herbert B. Ehrmann  --  Max Ascoli  --  Giles Playfair  --  David L. Bazelon  --  Douglas C. Rigg  --  Gertrude Samuels  --  Karl Menninger. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>61006701 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8694.M478.C375 1961 HV8694