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Publications on Death Penalty

Reports

An Impassioned Debate: An Overview of the Death Penalty in America An Impassioned Debate: An Overview of the Death Penalty in America
A Pew Forum special report examines the history of the death penalty in the U.S.
December 2007


An Enduring Majority An Enduring Majority
Americans Continue to Support the Death Penalty
December 2007


Capital Punishment's Constant Constituency: An American Majority Capital Punishment's Constant Constituency: An American Majority
June 2007


Legal Backgrounders

Lethal Injection on Trial Lethal Injection on Trial
An Analysis of the Arguments Before the Supreme Court in Baze v. Rees
December 2007


Pew Forum Discussions

Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty
A Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Discussion
January 2002


Survey Reports

Abortion and Rights of Terror Suspects Top Court Issues
Strong Support for Stem Cell Research
A survey jointly developed by the Pew Forum and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
August 2005


Books

Religion and the Death Penalty:  A Call for Reckoning Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning
The Eerdmans Religion, Ethics, and Public Life Series
Erik C. Owens, John D. Carlson, and Eric P. Elshtain, eds.
July 2004


Religious Landscape Survey

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