A Death Penalty Study without Hype
The death penalty debate is often characterized by more heat than light. This study takes the rhetoric out, replaces it with careful statistical analysis, and provides a solid social science examination of the administration of the death penalty in Texas since the 1970s.
The authors are more than qualified, one being a professor at Prairie View and the other a lawyer and adjunct at the University of Houston - Downtown.
Given the methodology, the work is not particularly exciting or dramatic. It is, however, at a level accessible to anyone interested in the topic.
I plan to keep it on my bookshelf for a long time to come.
