History of Capital Punishment is an extraordinary scholarly resource which includes content from Eugene G. Wanger’s groundbreaking and unique bibliography.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of death penalty legislation.
- Includes a database version of Eugene G. Wanger’s prestigious Death Penalty Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography
- Wanger’s bibliography includes books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the history of the death penalty
- Database includes more than 7,000 bibliographic entries with links to nearly 650 full-text documents only available in HeinOnline!
- Collection contains nearly 1,000 titles and 300,000 pages
- Also includes related trials, congressional hearings, periodicals, scholarly articles, and more.
About the History of Capital Punishment in HeinOnline
This fully-searchable, easy-to-use resource is packed with information on capital punishment and includes both a PDF and a database version of the Wanger bibliographic index, with access to nearly 650 full text out-of-copyright works indexed in Wanger’s collection. Other death penalty-related publications include nearly 150 trials, 300 books, and periodicals, as well as relevant scholarly articles, an additional bibliography, and external links to further the researcher’s exploration of this topic.
Mr. Wanger’s work, combined with the additional content included in History of Capital Punishment in HeinOnline, provides an extensive and well-organized platform for research on capital punishment and related issues.
About The Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger Death Penalty Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography
The Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger Death Penalty Collection is a bibliographic index referencing a wide variety of materials which document the history and debate about capital punishment as well as discuss the criminal justice system surrounding it.
The collection itself includes books, artifacts and ephemera, pamphlets, audio and video, prints, posters, buttons, reports, testimony, correspondence, files by subject, advocacy materials, and clippings. Mr. Wanger, a noted expert on this topic, created or collected the materials himself. The bound and boxed volumes of materials referenced in the bibliography, located at the National Death Penalty Archive at the State University of New York at Albany, provide a comprehensive overview of the history of death penalty legislation in Michigan. Through legislation in 1846, the state became the first English-speaking government to abolish the death penalty for murder and lesser crimes.
This extraordinary and unique scholarly resource was compiled over a period of more than 50 years, and was digitized exclusively by HeinOnline at the authors’ request. The bibliography concentrates on the death penalty’s nature, history, operation, effects, psychology, desirability, and compatibility with religious and moral precepts. The material is organized into five parts:
- Part I: Books, Pamphlets and Important Ephemera
- Part II: Files
- Part III: Electronic Media
- Part IV: Graphics Inventory
- Part V: Artifacts Inventory
Also included are finding lists, comprehensive search lists (including references to 97 names and subjects pertaining to capital punishment), and a general index. This incredible collection also includes Wanger’s testimony at numerous hearings opposing bills attempting to reinstate the death penalty, as well as brochures and short articles. Nearly 650 of the bibliographic records in The Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger Death Penalty Collection link to full-text documents in HeinOnline.
About Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger
Eugene G. Wanger, the author of this book, graduated from Amherst College with honors. He earned his law degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a champion moot court competitor, was elected president of his law fraternity and developed his interest in collecting books on history and government. Returning to Lansing and entering the practice of law, he was elected from that city to the Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1961-1962, where he was the youngest delegate of
his political party and, among other provisions, authored the state’s constitutional ban of the death penalty, which is the only constitutional prohibition of capital punishment in the United States.
Additional Online Resource Content
In addition to the database based on Wanger’s Death Penalty Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography, the online resource contains:
- An A-Z list of all available full-text titles
- Periodicals on the topic of the death penalty
- Trials and congressional hearings related to capital punishment
- Additional bibliographic references
- Scholarly articles about this topic
- Links to relevant external resources
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