Debating The Death Penalty

Author : Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195179804
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating the Death Penalty written by Hugo Adam Bedau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts 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
ISBN 13 : 1489927875
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death Penalty written by Ernest Van den Haag and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761425830
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Furman V. Georgia written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia in regard to the death penalty.

Author : Kaye Stearman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404237520
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Debate About the Death Penalty written by Kaye Stearman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9780766016880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death Penalty written by Thomas Streissguth and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Justin Healey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922084989
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death Penalty Debate written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Dow Burkhead
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078643368X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life for a Life written by Michael Dow Burkhead and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ted Gottfried
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Punishment written by Ted Gottfried and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 0585080682
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death Penalty written by Louis P. Pojman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195169836
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating the Death Penalty written by Hugo Adam Bedau and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.