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Books on the Death Penalty in Connecticut

Solemn Sentence of Death by Lawrence B. Goodheart
Call Number: HV8699.U6 C848 2011
ISBN: 9781558498471
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Traces the evolution of the death penalty in a single state from the colonial era to the present.
Legal Executions in New England by Daniel A. Hearn Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont legally put to death more than 700 men and women for a wide variety of capital crimes ranging from army desertion to murder. This companion volume to the previously released Legal Executions in New York State (McFarland,1997) is comprised of chronologically arranged biographical entries for the executed persons. Each entry gives personal data on the executed person, including age, ethnicity, and gender, as well as a detailed account of the crime for which he or she was sentenced to death and information on the place and method of execution. Fully indexed.
Call Number: HV8699.U5 H388 1999 Item does not circulate.
ISBN: 0786406704
Publication Date: 1999

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Capital Punishment Statistics
View statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Connecticut Innocence Project
An office of the State of Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services, and a member of the Innocence Project Network, a coalition of Innocence Projects in the fifty states and abroad.
Death Penalty: An Overview
Read general information about the death penalty from the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.
Death Penalty Information Center
For analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment, including a searchable database of executions since 1976; reports covering race, innocence, politicization, costs of the death penalty, and more; executions scheduled for 2008 ; and the highly regarded ESPY FILE, an historical database of executions in the United States, 1608-2002, searchable by state.
Death Penalty Worldwide
The Death Penalty Worldwide database "was designed to meet the needs of judges, policymakers, scholars, lawyers, journalists, and human rights advocates for comprehensive information regarding the application of the death penalty around the world."
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Survey of the Federal Death Penalty System, 1988-2000
View a statistical survey prepared by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Capital Punishment Resource Guide
This resource guide is compiled by the National Center for State Courts.

Research Databases

History of Capital Punishment
A HeinOnline resource includes both database and PDF versions of the Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger Death Penalty Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography. It also included hearings, trials, periodicals, and more.
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