Cruel and Unusual - Bessler, John D

Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment

By John D. Bessler

Published by Northeastern University Press in 2012

English, 473 pages

This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalty based on the notion of cruel and unusual punishment