About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Capital punishment, Life imprisonment, Corrections, Penal law, Criminal justice system of the Netherlands, Pardon, Compulsory sterilization, Death row, LGBT people in prison, Recidivism, Prison reform, Second Chance Act, InnerChange Freedom Initiative, Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1864-1866, Trusty system, Boot camp, George Cecil Ives, Corrections officer, Prison-industrial complex, Rookery, Special Operations Response Team, Prison Fellowship International, Prison uniform, Punitive expedition, Retributive justice, Rehabilitation, United States Probation Service, Man-prisoner, Executioner, Prison education, Cruel and unusual punishment, Short, sharp shock, Gates v. Collier, Separate system, Holt v. Sarver, Pervear v. Massachusetts, John school, Deterrence, Concord Prison Experiment, Conviction Kitchen, Project POOCH, Prisoners' rights, Edward Morrell, Offender workforce development, Diversion program, Uncensored from Texas Death Row, Reformatory, Correctional medicine, Good conduct time, Prison cell, Prisoner abuse, Single-celling, Frederic-Auguste Demetz, Work release, Incapacitation, Sentencing Guidelines Council, Transition from Prison to Community Initiative, Compter, Level 3 sex offender, Denunciation, Prison Register, Correctional psychology. Excerpt: Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head." Hence a capital crime was originally one punished by severing the head from the body. Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies (one notable exception being Kievan Rus; modern Russia does have the death penalty), a...
