CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: The Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake. Second Edition, Augmented

Hardback. The author contends that the system by which we choose those who are to die, as penalty for crime, is so mistake-prone and so saturated with standardless and arbitrary "discretion" that it cannot decently be used for this most terrible of choice. In Part I, the author explains his position as it was prior to the Supreme Court's rehabilitation of the death penalty in July 1976. In Part II, three new articles, prepared after the 1976 ruling are included. 174pp. 8vo. Lightly browned edges, o/w Vg+ in vg+ pcdw. which as a faded sp. From the library of crime historian, Jonathan Goodman, with his embossed stamp to fep.