Author: Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195179804 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 260
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Experts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.
Author: Ted Gottfried Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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Should a convicted murderer be given the death penalty? Ted Gottfried takes a balanced view and examines the many sides of this issue, discussing the history of capital punishment and specific cases involving this topic.
Author: Louis P. Pojman Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 0585080682 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 189
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Two distinguished social and political philosophers take opposing positions in this highly engaging work. Louis P. Pojman justifies the practice of execution by appealing to the principle of retribution: we deserve to be rewarded and punished according to the virtue or viciousness of our actions. He asserts that the death penalty does deter some potential murderers and that we risk the lives of innocent people who might otherwise live if we refuse to execute those deserving that punishment. Jeffrey Reiman argues that although the death penalty is a just punishment for murder, we are not morally obliged to execute murderers. Since we lack conclusive evidence that executing murderers is an effective deterrent and because we can foster the advance of civilization by demonstrating our intolerance for cruelty in our unwillingness to kill those who kill others, Reiman concludes that it is good in principle to avoid the death penalty, and bad in practice to impose it.
Author: Ernest Van den Haag Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1489927875 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 314
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From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceedings challenging the death penalty on constitutional grounds. After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally decided that "the death penalty does not invariably violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment." The Court's decisions, however, do not moot the controversy about the death penalty or render this excellent book irrelevant. The ball is now in the court of the Legislature and the Executive. Leg islatures, federal and state, can impose or abolish the death penalty, within the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court. A Chief Executive can commute a death sentence. And even the Supreme Court can change its mind, as it has done on many occasions and did, with respect to various aspects of the death penalty itself, durlog the moratorium period. Also, the people can change their minds. Some time ago, a majority, according to reliable polls, favored abolition. Today, a substantial majority favors imposition of the death penalty. The pendulum can swing again, as it has done in the past.
Author: Kaye Stearman Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 9781404237520 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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Describes the debate about the death penalty raising questions about whether it is justified, whether it is ever humane, who dies and who lives, and whether the death penalty ever makes society safer.
Author: Thomas Streissguth Publisher: Enslow Publishing ISBN: 9780766016880 Category : Capital punishment Languages : en Pages : 0
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Examines all sides of the death penalty debate, highlighting several controversial cases and exploring such issues as the execution of the mentally impared and racial differences in executions. Also describes new developments in science and technology that are changing the way guilt and innocence are decided and the way punishment is imposed.
Author: Michael Dow Burkhead Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 078643368X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 217
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Providing a new look at the intense public debate surrounding the death penalty in the United States, this book explores the various trends in public opinion that influence crime prevention efforts, create public policy, and reform criminal law. It examines eight core issues about the use of execution: cruel and unusual punishment, discrimination, deterrence, due process, culpability, scripture, innocence, and justice. It provides a brief history of capital punishment in the United States from the earliest known execution at the Jamestown Colony in 1608 to executions occurring as recently as 2008. Additional topics include the regionalization of capital punishment sentences, the spiritual and scriptural debate over the death penalty, the role of DNA evidence in modern execution sentences, and the ongoing effects of Furman v. Georgia, McClesky v. Kemp, Baze v. Rees, and other related court rulings.
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 9780195169836 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 242
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Experts on both side of the issue--including Paul Cassell, Alexander Kozinski, Louis Pojman, Stephen Bright, Hugo Bedau, Bryan Stevenson, Joshua Marquis, and Governor George Ryan--speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199761426 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 545
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InThe Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject,provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well. No mere revision of the third edition of The Death Penalty in America--which the New York Times praised as "the most complete, well-edited and comprehensive collection of readings on the pros and cons of the death penalty"--this volume brings together an entirely new selection of 40 essays and includes updated statistical and research data, recent Supreme Court decisions, and the best current contributions to the debate over capital punishment. From the status of the death penalty worldwide to current attitudes of Americans toward convicted killers, from legal arguments challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty to moral arguments enlisting the New Testament in support of it, from controversies over the role of race and class in the judicial system to proposals to televise executions, Bedau gathers readings that explore all the most compelling aspects of this most compelling issue.
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Author: Ted Gottfried
Author: Rebecca Stefoff
Author: Louis P. Pojman
Author: Ernest Van den Haag
Author: Kaye Stearman
Author: Thomas Streissguth
Author: Michael Dow Burkhead
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau