Scrutinizing the death penalty: State death penalty study commissions and their recommendations

The Death Penalty Today

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 29-59

  Acker, James R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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