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"
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(race OR racism OR discrimination)
"capital punishment" OR "death penalty"
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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.
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Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2016
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Kirchmeier, Jeffrey L. Imprisoned by the Past, Chapter 7 Oxford University Press 2015
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Cohen, Stanley, 1934- author. New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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Baker, David V., author. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc. 2016
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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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Linde, Robyn Oxford University Press 2016
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Steiker, Carol S. (Carol Susan), author. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2016
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Hatch, Virgina Leigh, author. New York : Oxford University Press 2016
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Conley, Robin, author. New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2016
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Bacigal, Ronald J., author. Eighth edition, 2017 edition.. Charlottesville, Va. : Virginia CLE Publications : Virginia Law Foundation 2017
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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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LaChance, Daniel, 1979- author. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press 2017
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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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Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association 2017
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Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases (View details) Conley, Robin Oxford University Press 2016
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