Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts

by Alan Rogers

For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder, but with a sharp eye on "due proceeding" and against the backdrop of popular ambivalence about the death penalty's morality, cruelty, efficacy, and constitutionality. In this authoritative book, Alan Rogers offers a comprehensive account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558496335
• ISBN13: 9781558496330
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher