Capital Punishment - Anthony Jones

Prize winning newspaper correspondent Anthony James reopens the whole case for and against legalised death. The author takes no sides: he merely lays out all the gruesome facts and lets the reader decide.

He puts execution on trial and, ranging over the centuries from the guillotine to the gas chamber, he asks all the questions that should and must be asked. Is capital punishment a deterrent or an act of barbarism? Will it prevent street crime? Is it equal justice or selective justice. With more than 600 condemned prisoners on the Death Rows of America—this is a book for right now!

Some discolouration to the cover.