Capital Punishment/Death Penalty Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: Introduction to the historical, social and legal aspects of capital punishment. 
Call number areas to browse:  HV8694-8699, KF9227.C2 
Keywords to search: death, penalty, capital, punishment 
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):  
capital punishment, death row, executions and executioners, discrimination in capital punishment

Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment (REF HV8694 .G76 1998)
The Death Penalty : Opposing Viewpoints (HV8694 .D385 1997)
Death is Different : Studies in the Morality, Law, and Politics of Capital Punishment (HV8699.U5 B39 1987)
Criminal Sentencing (KF9223.Z9 C735 1995)

Library Resources (r): 
CQ Researcher
Issues & Controversies on File 
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Sociological Abstracts 

Internet Resources: 
the Best Information on the Net: Death Penalty  A librarian's guide to the best death penalty information on the net.

Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation published by the Human Rights Watch Organization.

Ethics Updates Ethical aspects of many popular topics including the death penalty.

Focus on the Death Penalty (University of Alaska Anchorage) includes history, statistics, debate, etc.

Death Penalty Information Center Facts about the death penalty, including executions by year, by state, by method used; botched executions; list of individuals executed (1976-2000). Reports on topics relating to capital punishment, including race and the death penalty, politicizing the death penalty, crisis in death penalty representation, law enforcement views, innocence and the death penalty, and cost of
capital punishment