The Penalty Is DeathAn updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones. The Penalty Is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital punishment had been abolished as the penalty for murder in only 30 nations, although there was a moratorium on its use in many more. In 2022, the number