Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts, Paperback - Alan Rogers

For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder. This book offers an account of how the efforts of reformers and a...

In the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a risin...

Reducere. Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists As Ruth Bader Gins...

Geometrical Justice enlists the pathbreaking geometrical theory of law developed by sociologist Donald Black. Drawing on large datasets, this book ...

Publisher: Council of EuropeAuthor(s): Council of EuropeNumber of pages: 6Collection: European treaty seriesPublication date: 2002Dimensions: 207 x...

Publisher: Badger PublishingAuthor(s): Alan DurantIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsCollection: Making the TeamPublication date: 2022Di...

Reducere. DescriptionOver a career spanning nearly four decades, Rick Unklesbay has tried over one hundred murder cases before juries that ended with sixteen...

Reducere. In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas--and what it tells us about crime and p...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The bucolic image of central Massachusetts belies a dark and sometimes deadly past. Grisly crimes and grim misdeeds reach back to colonial settleme...

Modern-day motherhood is hard and discrimination against women who are, have been or could be pregnant is on the rise. Pregnant Then Screwed tells ...

Contributor(s): Author: Andrea D. LyonNineteen times, death penalty defense lawyer Andrea D. Lyon has represented a client convicted of capital mur...

Reducere. A cutting edge look at the state of the death penalty in America, from the point of view of a judge, a district sttorney, two defense lawyers and t...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Steven A. RamirezNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 238 x 161 x 28Cover type: Har...

Passion, deception and a detective with secrets of his own play out in this new murder mystery featuring recurring character Daniel Hawthorne, from...

On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging...

In a tale marrying the insight of Sue Townsend with the farcical humour of John O'Farrell, a priceless cello is abducted, a conductor is stranded o...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionSHANGHAI, 1935. The Most Alluring and Most Dangerous City in the WorldSomeone is murdering flower-seller girls in Shanghai's Flowery Kin...

Laurent de Rodergues' tranquil seclusion in Saint-Chartier is destroyed when the renovator of the town's medieval chateau is found dead. Laurent is...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rich CurtinEvents which took place in 1938 lead to the present-day killing of a ranch hand in the remote canyon country nea...

A comedy murder mystery set in France with an amateur sleuth out of his depth. When an older gentleman disappears from a B&B, Richard and his more ...

Reducere. The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley is notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with...

Reducere. Who knew a New Year's trip to Budapest could be so deadly? The tour must go on - even with a killer in their midst...Recent divorcee Lana Hansen ne...

Reducere. It was a crime unlike anything seen in British Columbia. The horror of the "Wells Gray Murders" almost forty years ago transcends decades. On Augus...

Reducere. DescriptionFollow law enforcement's two-year inquest into Prince's death, from the first 911 call through present day. Authored by an independent o...

`We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, le...

IN 1925, the peaceful Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa found itself involved in mystery and horror. Eight-year-old Arthur Buddy Schumacher Jr. was las...

Reducere. The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Par...

When a local art shop owner is murdered, Jessica Fletcher is surprised to once again be working alongside her old friend MI-6 agent Michael Haggert...

Reducere. There's a damsel in distress and accusations of attempted murder flying around, but it's not in the comfortable confines of the English countryside...

Reducere. When a trip to Scotland ends in tragedy, travel guide Lana Hansen must sleuth out who murdered her guest before she ends up paying the piper.Lana h...

Publisher: Galaxy PressAuthor(s): L. Ron HubbardNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 139 x 202 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. "Anybody who has ever questioned the origin of the AIDS holocaust ane epidemic; anyone who has doubts about the Green Monkey Theory of AIDS has to ...

Reducere. DescriptionLove Her to DeathJohn Glatt A MARRIAGE: DESTROYED They were a picture-perfect family--until a bitter divorce drove Darren Mack over the ...

Reducere. Paris--the city of love, lights ... and murder? Join tour guide Lana Hansen as she escorts five couples on an unforgettable Valentine-themed vacati...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Death in the Everglades chronicles the demise of one of 20th-century Florida's most enduring folk heroes. The murder of Guy Bradley represents a mi...

San Francisco, 1981. Danger is in the air and nothing is as it appears. But then, neither is Riley. The body of a gay cop who committed suicide, a ...

Reducere.  Entering the 1978-1979 season, the Boston Bruins had been one of the best teams in the National Hockey League for more than a decade. Yet they co...

More dastardly than Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel; more vile than the dense fog of a London Particular, an arch-fiend prowls the Victorian city st...

The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley is notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with...

Return to a golden age of glamour, murder and intrigue, in a gripping novel by one of our best-loved detective story writers.Publisher: Hodder & St...

Reducere. Fatal Shadows (1933): In the early morning hours after the natives' frenetic celebration of the Sultan's birthday, beautiful Ailsa Brownley is foun...

Two children's stories in which incredible things occur in the park after the gates are locked, and in the gardens there are things that even Richa...

Describes how a man narrowly escaped the gallows in one of the UK's most famous murder acquittals. Peppered with snapshots of the times. Analyses c...

An all-out all-action, complete-in-one brutal war story from the pages of the classic war comic, Battle, hugely influential on Preacher and The Boy...

Amish quilt shop owner Angie Braddock crosses wires with a killer in the latest from the national bestselling author of Murder, Plainly Read... Spr...