The Bill of Rights and the States
The Bill of Rights and the States

Author: Patrick T. Conley

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780945612292

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Fourteen individual state essays elucidate the complexitites of local and regional interests that shaped the debate over individual rights and the eventual adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Legal Executions in New England
Legal Executions in New England

Author: Daniel Allen Hearn

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-08-13

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1476608539

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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 is a companion volume to Legal Executions in New York State and Legal Executions in New Jersey, both published by McFarland. It 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.

Preventive Detention
Preventive Detention

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 1382

ISBN-13:

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