Part 1

Where does America today stand on the "capital punishment continuum" (Garland 2007, 439)? What is one factor for the U.S.'s place on this continuum, according to Garland in "The Peculiar Forms of American Capital Punishment"?

Part 2

Instruction: Single-spaced and be One - Two pages in length

The following is the actual content of the article review. 1. State the main topic of this work. 2. State the conclusion of the author. 3. Identify two important statements/points made by the author to support his/her

conclusion. Discuss these two statements/points. 4. Raise one question that you think the author should address in this article. What is

your reason to think so?

Reference for part 1 and 2:

Garland, David. (2007). "The Peculiar Forms of American Capital Punishment" in Social Science

Research, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer): 435-464.