The Crusade Against Capital Punishment
Author: Elizabeth Orman Tuttle
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 177
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Author: Elizabeth Orman Tuttle
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 177
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ezzat A Fattah, PhD
Publisher: Ezzat A. Fattah
Published: 2023-08-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781999215651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCapital punishment is the last remnant of an archaic, primitive justice system. It is a vestige of a bygone era, an era during which punishment, either for lack of humanity or alternatives or both, was physical, violent, cruel and irreversible. It is a relic of the past, a relic that is not concordant with any of the contemporary aims of sentencing. That a barbaric practice like the death penalty continues to be used in a large number of countries, including the most populous and wealthiest countries of the world, is a reality that defies logic and rationality. The death penalty, regardless of what its proponents say, is simply a mode of vengeance rather than a means of expressing society's disapproval. It neither fosters nor promotes reverence for life, because its effect on the public mind is one of brutalizing and not of humanizing.
Author: Elizabeth Ann Orman Tuttle
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James J. Megivern
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 1616437928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive history of the death penalty in the West that provides more material on capital punishment in Western Christian history than is available in any other work in English.
Author: Marvin Henry Bovee
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Evan J. Mandery
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-08-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393240641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history. For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction. A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time.
Author: Herbert H. Haines
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-08-19
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0195351061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilt on in-depth interviews with movement leaders and the records of key abolitionist organizations, this work traces the struggle against capital punishment in the United States since 1972. Haines reviews the legal battles that led to the short-lived suspension of the death penalty and examines the subsequent conservative turn in the courts that has forced death penalty opponents to rely less on litigation strategies and more on political action. Employing social movement theory, he diagnoses the causes of the anti-death penalty movement's inability to mobilize widespread opposition to executions, and he makes pointed recommendations for improving its effectiveness. For this edition Haines has included a new Afterword in which he summarizes developments in the movement since 1994.
Author: Robert Badinter
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008-08-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781555536923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English translation of a behind-the-scenes account of the abolition of the death penalty in France