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Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-03-24
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780195179804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-03-24
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0195179803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.
Author: Ernest Van den Haag
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1489927875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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: Thomas Streissguth
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780766016880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines 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: Kaye Stearman
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2007-12-15
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781404237520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes 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: Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780761425830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia in regard to the death penalty.
Author: Justin Healey
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781922084989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Dow Burkhead
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-08-06
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 078643368X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding 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: Louis P. Pojman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0585080682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo 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: Ted Gottfried
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShould 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.
