No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States

by Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Book Overview

Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds of years, yet the justification for carrying out the ultimate sentence is a continuing source of controversy. No Winners Here Tonight explores the history of the death penalty and the question of its fairness through the experience of a single state, Ohio, which, despite its moderate midwestern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821418335
• ISBN13: 9780821418338
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"