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Author : Veritas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : UIUC:30112087927791
Author : Veritas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : OCLC:191315823
Author : Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 0914031015
Author : Hugo Adam Bedau,Paul G. Cassell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0195179803
Experts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee on Capital Punishment,John Louis O'Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : WISC:89011267788
Author : Ivan Šimonović
Publisher : UN
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9211542154
Capital punishment is irrevocable. It prohibits the correction of mistakes by the justice system and leaves no room for human error, with the gravest of consequences. There is no evidence of a deterrent effect of the death penalty. Those sacrificed on the altar of retributive justice are almost always the most vulnerable. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the discriminatory application of the death penalty, wrongful convictions, proven lack of deterrence effect, to legality of the capital punishment under international law and the morality of taking of human life.
Author : John Louis O'SULLIVAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020227989
Author : Benjamin S. Yost
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190901189
The specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. So-called proceduralist arguments against the death penalty are attractive to death penalty abolitionists because they sidestep the controversies that bedevil moral critiques of execution. Proceduralists do not shoulder the burden of demonstrating that heinous murderers deserve a punishment less than death. However, proceduralist arguments often pay insufficient attention to the importance of punishment; many imply the highly contentious claim that no type of criminal sanction is legitimate. In Against Capital Punishment, Benjamin S. Yost revitalizes the core of proceduralism both by examining the connection between procedural injustice and the impermissibility of capital punishment and by offering a comprehensive argument of his own which confronts proceduralism's most significant shortcomings. Yost is the first author to develop and defend the irrevocability argument against capital punishment, demonstrating that the irremediability of execution renders capital punishment impermissible. His contention is not that the act of execution is immoral, but rather that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes precludes the just administration of the death penalty. Shoring up proceduralist arguments for the abolition of the death penalty, Against Capital Punishment carries with it implications not only for the continued use of the death penalty in the criminal justice system, but also for the structure and integrity of the system as a whole.
Author : Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489927873
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 : Eric Roy Calvert
Publisher : Montclair, N.J : Patterson Smith
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008377718
Author : Peter Hodgkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351887502
The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is understood and posited. Of particular interest is the attention given to an integral but often forgotten element of the abolition debate: alternatives to capital punishment. The volume also provides an account of strategies employed by the abolition community which challenges tired methodologies and offers a level of transparency previously unseen. This collection tackles complex but fundamental components of the capital punishment debate using empirical data and expert observations and is essential reading for those wishing to comprehend the fundamental issues which underpin capital punishment discourse.
Author : Louis P. Pojman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780585080680
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 : Amnesty International
Publisher : New York, NY : Amnesty International USA
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002533003
Risks to the innocent
Author : John O'Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 146114924X
Originally published in 1841, O'Sullivan's report contains compelling arguments against the death penalty. Drawing on legal precedents, the author presents a line of reasoning that remains relevant and persuasive today
Author : Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. Committee on Capital Punishment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : UCD:31175035158255
