Book Review
Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment. By John D. Bessler. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012. 456 pp. $39.95 cloth.
Article first published online: 12 DEC 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00528.x
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How to Cite
Kaplan, P. (2012), Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment. By John D. Bessler. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012. 456 pp. $39.95 cloth. Law & Society Review, 46: 938–940. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00528.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 12 DEC 2012
- Article first published online: 12 DEC 2012
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