Capital Punishment In The United States

Author : Louis J. Palmer, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780786451838

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Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed. by Louis J. Palmer, Jr. Pdf

This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It details virtually every capital punishment decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court through 2006, including more than 40 cases decided since publication of the first edition. Entries are also provided for each Supreme Court Justice who has ever rendered a capital punishment opinion. Entries on jurisdictions cite present-day death penalty laws and judicial structure state by state, with synopses of common and unique features. Also included are entries on significant U.S. capital prosecutions; legal principles and procedures in capital cases; organizations that support and oppose capital punishment; capital punishment's impact on persons of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent, on women, and on foreign nationals; and the methods of execution. Essential facts are also provided on capital punishment in more than 200 other nations. A wealth of statistical data is found throughout.

Author : Daniel LaChance
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226583181

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Executing Freedom by Daniel LaChance Pdf

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death? That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American culture and how it has changed over the years. Drawing on an array of sources, including congressional hearings and campaign speeches, true crime classics like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans’ thinking about the relationship between the individual and the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do—and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it’s the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States.

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 : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309254168

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Deterrence and the Death Penalty by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty Pdf

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 : Hugo Adam Bedau,Paul G. Cassell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0195179803

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Debating the Death Penalty by Hugo Adam Bedau,Paul G. Cassell Pdf

Experts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.

Author : Seth Kotch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469649887

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Lethal State by Seth Kotch Pdf

For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state sought to remake its image as modern and business-progressive in the early twentieth century, the question of execution preoccupied lawmakers, reformers, and state boosters alike. In this book, Seth Kotch recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina from its colonial origins to the present. He tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies. Through this lens, Lethal State helps explain not only Americans' deep and growing uncertainty about the death penalty but also their commitment to it. Kotch argues that Jim Crow justice continued to reign in the guise of a modernizing, orderly state and offers essential insight into the relationship between race, violence, and power in North Carolina. The history of capital punishment in North Carolina, as in other states wrestling with similar issues, emerges as one of state-building through lethal punishment.

Author : M. Watt Espy,John Ortiz Smykla,Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Publisher : Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015018327125

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Executions in the United States, 1608-1987 by M. Watt Espy,John Ortiz Smykla,Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Pdf

This study furnishes data on executions performed in the United States under civil authority. It includes a description of each individual executed and the circumstances surrounding the crime for which the person was convicted. Variables include age, race, name, sex, and occupation of the offender, place, jurisdiction, date and method of execution and the crime for which the offender was executed.

Author : Evan Mandery
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781449605988

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Capital Punishment in America by Evan Mandery Pdf

This revised and updated second edition is an overview of capital punishment. It offers an examination of the death penalty, supported by statistics and Supreme Court cases, and followed by pro and con discussions. The book addresses every major issue relating to the death penalty including deterrence, racial impact, arbitrariness, its use on special populations, and methods of execution. This text challenges students to evaluate their beliefs and assumptions on each of the various issues surrounding this controversial subject. Each chapter begins with a primer of the issue to be discussed, followed by the data and critical documents necessary to make an educated assessment, and concludes with essays that offer differing viewpoints by some of the best minds in the country. New material added to the second edition includes: updated data on deterrence ; new data and articles on brutalization and cost ; new cases and articles on the death penalty for juveniles ; new case and articles on the death penalty for raping a child ; and a new chapter on methods of execution.

Author : David V. Baker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476622880

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Women and Capital Punishment in the United States by David V. Baker Pdf

The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing a pattern of patriarchal domination and female subordination. The book includes a discussion of condemned women granted executive clemency and judicial commutations, an inquiry into women falsely convicted in potentially capital cases and a profile of the current female death row population.

Author : Rick Unklesbay
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781627876810

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Arbitrary Death by Rick Unklesbay Pdf

Over a career spanning nearly four decades, Rick Unklesbay has tried over one hundred murder cases before juries that ended with sixteen men and women receiving the death sentence. Arbitrary Death depicts some of the most horrific murders in Tucson, Arizona, the author's prosecution of those cases, and how the death penalty was applied. It provides the framework to answer the questions: Why is America the only Western country to still use the death penalty? Can a human-run system treat those cases fairly and avoid unconstitutional arbitrariness? It is an insider's view from someone who has spent decades prosecuting murder cases and who now argues that the death penalty doesn't work and our system is fundamentally flawed. With a rational, balanced approach, Unklesbay depicts cases that represent how different parts of the criminal justice system are responsible for the arbitrary nature of the death penalty and work against the fair application of the law. The prosecution, trial courts, juries, and appellate courts all play a part in what ultimately is a roll of the dice as to whether a defendant lives or dies. Arbitrary Death is for anyone who wonders why and when its government seeks to legally take the life of one of its citizens. It will have you questioning whether you can support a system that applies death as an arbitrary punishment -- and often decades after the sentence was given.

Author : Ron Fridell
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761415874

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Capital Punishment by Ron Fridell Pdf

Presents divergent viewpoints on capital punishment in the United States.

Author : United States. Bureau of Prisons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Prisoners
ISBN : UOM:39015039726784

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NPS Bulletin by United States. Bureau of Prisons Pdf

Author : Raymond Paternoster,Robert Brame,Sarah Bacon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015079163492

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The Death Penalty by Raymond Paternoster,Robert Brame,Sarah Bacon Pdf

This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice system today—the death penalty. Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view. Topics include: * The history of the death penalty in the United States, from the 1600s to today * The changing nature of the death penalty—changes in the types of crimes that warranted the penalty, the procedures employed to put capital offenders on trial, and the methods used to impose death * Constitutional/legal issues surrounding the death penalty * The influence of race on the administration of the death penalty, both in the past and in the present * Justifications for and against the death penalty (retribution, cost, public safety, and religious arguments) * Questions about the execution of innocents, exonerated capital offenders, and flaws in the operation of the death penalty * Public opinion and the death penalty * The death penalty and international law and practice * The future of the death penalty in America

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691188669

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When the State Kills by Austin Sarat Pdf

Is capital punishment just? Does it deter people from murder? What is the risk that we will execute innocent people? These are the usual questions at the heart of the increasingly heated debate about capital punishment in America. In this bold and impassioned book, Austin Sarat seeks to change the terms of that debate. Capital punishment must be stopped, Sarat argues, because it undermines our democratic society. Sarat unflinchingly exposes us to the realities of state killing. He examines its foundations in ideas about revenge and retribution. He takes us inside the courtroom of a capital trial, interviews jurors and lawyers who make decisions about life and death, and assesses the arguments swirling around Timothy McVeigh and his trial for the bombing in Oklahoma City. Aided by a series of unsettling color photographs, he traces Americans' evolving quest for new methods of execution, and explores the place of capital punishment in popular culture by examining such films as Dead Man Walking, The Last Dance, and The Green Mile. Sarat argues that state executions, once used by monarchs as symbolic displays of power, gained acceptance among Americans as a sign of the people's sovereignty. Yet today when the state kills, it does so in a bureaucratic procedure hidden from view and for which no one in particular takes responsibility. He uncovers the forces that sustain America's killing culture, including overheated political rhetoric, racial prejudice, and the desire for a world without moral ambiguity. Capital punishment, Sarat shows, ultimately leaves Americans more divided, hostile, indifferent to life's complexities, and much further from solving the nation's ills. In short, it leaves us with an impoverished democracy. The book's powerful and sobering conclusions point to a new abolitionist politics, in which capital punishment should be banned not only on ethical grounds but also for what it does to Americans and what we cherish.

Author : Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015000586670

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The Death Penalty in America by Hugo Adam Bedau Pdf

A study of capital punishment issues, including American attitudes, deterence problems, and discussions for and against the death penalty.

Author : United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : OSU:32435021848544

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Capital Punishment by United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service Pdf