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Author : United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : IND:30000066884549
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309254168
Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.
Author : United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : LCCN:75619081
Author : United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : OSU:32435021848510
Author : Thomas Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015010243312
A compilation of articles reviewing judicial and legislative actions concerning the death penalty since 1977 and essays debating the moral issues involved.
Author : United States. Bureau of Prisons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Prisoners
ISBN : UOM:39015039726784
Author : Michael Radelet
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0877227217
"These essays...show us the human and inhuman realities of capital punishment through the eyes of the condemned and those who work with them. By focusing on those awaiting death, they present the awful truth behind the statistics in concrete, personal terms." --William J. Bowers, author of Legal Homicide Between 1930 and 1967, there were 3,859 executions carried out under state and civil authority in the United States. Since the ten-year moratorium on capital punishment ended in 1977, more than one hundred prisoners have been executed. There are more than two thousand men and women now living on death row awaiting their executions. Facing the Death Penalty offers an in-depth examination of what life under a sentence of death is like for condemned inmates and their families, how and why various professionals assist them in their struggle for life, and what these personal experiences with capital punishment tell us about the wisdom of this penal policy. The contributors include historians, attorneys, sociologists, anthropologists, criminologists, a minister, a philosopher, and three prisoners. One of the prisoner-contributors is Willie Jasper Darden, Jr., whose case and recent execution after fourteen years on death row drew international attention. The inter-disciplinary perspectives offered in this book will not solve the death penalty debate, but they offer important and unique insights on the full effects of American capital punishment provisions. While the book does not set out to generate sympathy for those convicted of horrible crimes, taken together, the essays build a case for abolition of the death penalty. "This work stands with the best of what's been written. It represents the best of those who have seen the worst." --Colman McCarthy, The Washington Post Book World
Author : Ron Fridell
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761415874
Presents divergent viewpoints on capital punishment in the United States.
Author : Hans Toch,James R. Acker,Vincent Martin Bonventre
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433829002
PROSE Award Finalist for Psychology This book synthesizes scholarly reflections with personal accounts from prison administrators and inmates to show the harsh reality of life on death row.
Author : Barry Latzer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780123820259
Death Penalty Cases presents significant verbatim excerpts of death-penalty decisions from the United States Supreme Court. The first chapter introduces the topics discussed throughout the book. It also includes a detailed history of the death penalty in the United States. After this introduction, the remaining eighteen chapters are divided into five parts: Foundational Cases, Death-Eligible Crimes and Persons, The Death Penalty Trial, Post-Conviction Review, and Execution Issues. The first part, consisting of five chapters, talks about the mandatory death penalty, mitigating evidence and racial bias. The next part covers death-eligible crimes, such as rape and other crimes that do not involve homicide and murder. The middle part presents the trial process, from choosing the appropriate decision-makers through the sentencing decision. Followed by this is a chapter focusing on the aftermath of conviction, such as claims of innocence. The book concludes by exploring issues related to execution, such as not executing insane convicts. Finally, execution methods are presented. Provides the most recent case material--no need to supplement Topical organization of cases provides a more logical organization for structuring a course Co-authors with different perspectives on the death penalty assures complete impartiality of the material Provides the necessary historical background, a clear explanation of the current capital case process, and an impartial description of the controversies surrounding the death penalty Provides the latest statistics relevant to discussions on the death penalty Clearly explains the different ways in which the states process death penalty cases, with excerpts of the most relevant statutes
Author : Bill Crawford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440635601
A chilling catalog of the men and women who have paid the ultimate price for their crimes The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested and longest-standing issues in American politics, and no place is more symbolic of that debate than Texas. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, Texas has put more than 390 prisoners to death, far more than any other state. Texas Death Row puts faces to those condemned men and women, with stark details on their crimes, sentencing, last meals, and last words. Definitive and objective, Texas Death Row will provide ample fuel for readers on both sides of the death penalty debate.
Author : Charles W. Triche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39076000782305
Author : George H. Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538134559
In January 2000, Illinois Governor George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions—the first such action by any governor in the history of the United States. Despite a long history as a death penalty proponent, Ryan was emotionally moved after allowing an execution in 1999. He was also profoundly disturbed by the state’s history—12 men had been executed and 13 had been exonerated since the return of the death penalty in Illinois in 1977. More had been proven innocent than had been executed. Three years later, in 2003, Ryan pardoned four death row inmates based on their actual innocence and then commuted the death sentences of 167 men and women. This was the largest death row commutation in U.S. history. At that time, 12 states and the District of Columbia barred the death penalty. His actions breathed new life into the movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Over the next 15 years, Illinois and seven other states would abolish the death penalty—New Jersey, Maryland, New Mexico, Connecticut, Delaware, New York and Washington. Today, the push to reform the criminal justice system has never been stronger in America, a nation that incarcerates more men and women than any other country in the world and also wrongfully convicts hundreds of men and women. Although the number of executions carried out every year continues to drop in the U.S., the death penalty still exists in 31 states. Moreover, in some non-death penalty states, factions seek to reinstate it. Until I Could Be Sure: How I Stopped the Death Penalty in Illinois is, in his own words, the story of George Ryan’s journey from death penalty proponent to death penalty opponent. His story continues to resonate today. He defied the political winds and endured the fury and agony of the families of the victims and the condemned as well as politicians, prosecutors and law enforcement. It is a story of courage and faith. It is a timely reminder of the heroic acts of a Republican Governor who was moved by conscience, his faith and a disturbing factual record of death row exonerations.
Author : Ivan Solotaroff
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062041531
In fascinating detail, Ivan Solotaroff introduces us to the men who carry out executions. Although the emphasis is on the personal lives of these men and of those they have to put to death, The Last Face You'll Ever See also addresses some of the deeper issues of the death penalty and connects the veiled, elusive figure of the executioner to the vast majority of Americans who, since 1977, have claimed to support executions. Why do we do it? Or, more exactly, why do we want to? The Last Face You'll Ever See is not about the polarizing issues of the death penalty -- it is a firsthand report about the culture of executions: the executioners, the death-row inmates, and everyone involved in the act. An engrossing, unsettling, and provocative book, this work will forever affect anyone who reads it.
Author : Welsh S. White
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0472064614
An up-to-date examination of legal changes and shifting attitudes surrounding capital punishment