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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131453412
Author : Susan Schechter-Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : PURD:32754062207422
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : UOM:39015011548016
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : LCCN:75619081
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 : 53,7 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 : Ron Fridell
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761415874
Presents divergent viewpoints on capital punishment in the United States.
Author : Bruce E. R. Thompson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737746334
This volume provides an abundance of information on the history of capital punishment, and ongoing opposition to it. Author Bruce E.R. Thompson includes narratives on well-known figures on both sides of the issue. Various methods of execution are explained and their use placed in historical context. Legal terminology important to the debate is defined and explained.
Author : Welsh S. White
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0472064614
An up-to-date examination of legal changes and shifting attitudes surrounding capital punishment
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : IND:30000135679920
Author : Susan Schechter-Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : OCLC:605211962
Author : Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814205313
Author : Franklin E. Zimring,Gordon Hawkins
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 052137863X
This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States in the 1980s. The book, which shows a United States pursuing an active execution policy, is an original and compelling contribution to the discussion of the future of the death penalty.
Author : Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : United States. Bureau of Prisons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Prisoners
ISBN : UOM:39015039726784
Author : James S. Liebman,Shawn Crowley,Andrew Markquart,Lauren Rosenberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780231167239
In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and found that DeLuna almost certainly was innocent. They discovered that no one had cared enough about either the defendant or the victim to make sure the real perpetrator was found. Everything that could go wrong in a criminal case did. This book documents DeLunaÕs conviction, which was based on a single, nighttime, cross-ethnic eyewitness identification with no corroborating forensic evidence. At his trial, DeLunaÕs defense, that another man named Carlos had committed the crime, was not taken seriously. The lead prosecutor told the jury that the other Carlos, Carlos Hernandez, was a ÒphantomÓ of DeLunaÕs imagination. In upholding the death penalty on appeal, both the state and federal courts concluded the same thing: Carlos Hernandez did not exist. The evidence the Columbia team uncovered reveals that Hernandez not only existed but was well known to the police and prosecutors. He had a long history of violent crimes similar to the one for which DeLuna was executed. Families of both Carloses mistook photos of each for the other, and HernandezÕs violence continued after DeLuna was put to death. This book and its website (thewrongcarlos.net) reproduce law-enforcement, crime lab, lawyer, court, social service, media, and witness records, as well as court transcripts, photographs, radio traffic, and audio and videotaped interviews, documenting one of the most comprehensive investigations into a criminal case in U.S. history. The result is eye-opening yet may not be unusual. Faulty eyewitness testimony, shoddy legal representation, and prosecutorial misfeasance continue to put innocent people at risk of execution. The principal investigators conclude with novel suggestions for improving accuracy among the police, prosecutors, forensic scientists, and judges.