Search W&M's library catalog, using search strategies such as:
1. For books about the broad topic: "capital punishment" as SUBJECT
2. For books about a particular aspect of capital punishment, here are a few example searches:
"capital punishment" OR "death penalty"
AND
statistics
"capital punishment" OR "death penalty"
AND
(race OR racism OR discrimination)
"capital punishment" OR "death penalty"
AND
religio*
"capital punishment" OR "death penalty"
AND
politic*
3. And here are a few example books:
Note: many of the books on this topic are owned only by W&M's Law Library. If it's a print book, any W&M student can check it out; if it's an electronic book *only* owned by the Law Library, please check with Swem Library's Research Desk.
Race and the death penalty : the legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp / edited by David P. Keys, R.J. Maratea. (View details)
Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2016
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- Wolf Law Library Stacks (KF9227 .C2 R33 2016 )
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A Time of Change: American Society and the Death Penalty in the 1950s through the 1960s (View details)
Kirchmeier, Jeffrey L.
Imprisoned by the Past, Chapter 7
Oxford University Press 2015
Convicting the innocent : death row and America's broken system of justice / Stanley Cohen. (View details)
Cohen, Stanley, 1934- author.
New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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- Richard Bland College Library Stacks (HV8699.U5 C64 2016 )
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Women and capital punishment in the United States : an analytical history / David V. Baker. (View details)
Baker, David V., author.
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc. 2016
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- Wolf Law Library Stacks (HV8699 .U5 B34 2015 )
- Wolf Law Library Stacks (HV8699 .U5 B34 2015 )
Against the death penalty / Justice Stephen Breyer ; edited by John Bessler. (View details)
Breyer, Stephen G., 1938- author.
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press 2016
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The Globalization of Childhood: The International Diffusion of Norms and Law against the Child Death Penalty
Linde, Robyn
Oxford University Press 2016
Courting death : the Supreme Court and capital punishment / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker. (View details)
Steiker, Carol S. (Carol Susan), author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2016
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Capital punishment : theory and practice of the ultimage penalty / Virgina Leigh Hatch, Bowie State University, Anthony Walsh, Bowie State University.
Hatch, Virgina Leigh, author.
New York : Oxford University Press 2016
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- Wolf Law Library Stacks (HV8694 .H27 2016 )
- Wolf Law Library Stacks (HV8694 .H27 2016 )
Confronting the death penalty : how language influences jurors in capital cases / Robin Conley. (View details)
Conley, Robin, author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2016
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- Wolf Law Library Stacks (KF9227 .C2 C65 2016 )
- Wolf Law Library Stacks (KF9227 .C2 C65 2016 )
Trial of capital murder cases in Virginia / Ronald J. Bacigal, Jonathan P. Sheldon, Joseph T. Flood. (View details)
Bacigal, Ronald J., author.
Eighth edition, 2017 edition.. Charlottesville, Va. : Virginia CLE Publications : Virginia Law Foundation 2017
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- Wolf Law Library Reserve (KFV2975 .G45 2017 )
- Wolf Law Library Reserve (KFV2975 .G45 2017 )
- Wolf Law Library Virginia Collection (KFV2975 .G45 2017 )
- Wolf Law Library Virginia Collection (KFV2975 .G45 2017 )
The death penalty as torture : from the Dark Ages to abolition / John D. Bessler. (View details)
Bessler, John D., author.
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press 2017
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- Wolf Law Library Stacks (K5104 .B48 2017 )
- Wolf Law Library Stacks (K5104 .B48 2017 )
Executing freedom : the cultural life of capital punishment in the United States / Daniel LaChance. (View details)
LaChance, Daniel, 1979- author.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press 2017
The death penalty : a reference handbook / Joseph A. Melusky and Keith A. Pesto. (View details)
Melusky, Joseph Anthony, author.
Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO 2017
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- Wolf Law Library New Books (HV8699 .U5 M46 2017 )
- Wolf Law Library New Books (HV8699 .U5 M46 2017 )
Tell the client's story : mitigation in criminal and death penalty cases / Edward C. Monahan & James Clark, editors. (View details)
Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association 2017
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- Wolf Law Library Stacks (KF9240 .T45 2017 )
- Wolf Law Library Stacks (KF9240 .T45 2017 )
Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases (View details)
Conley, Robin
Oxford University Press 2016
