Death Penalty In A Nutshell

Author : Victor L. Streib
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063696939

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Death Penalty in a Nutshell by Victor L. Streib Pdf

Covering both the substantive law and the procedural law of the death penalty, this title begins with the arguments for and against the death penalty and an explanation of its basic constitutional challenges and limitations. Major sections cover capital crimes and defenses, as well as trial level and post-trial procedural issues. Special topics such as race and gender bias and executing the innocent are included, as well as a section on international and foreign law issues. This Nutshell serves both as supplemental reading for students in death penalty courses and as a concise, narrative explanation of death penalty law.

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 : 50,7 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 : Victor L. Streib,Sam Kamin,Justin Marceau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 1634603028

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Death Penalty in a Nutshell by Victor L. Streib,Sam Kamin,Justin Marceau Pdf

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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

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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 : Megan Manzano
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534502130

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The Death Penalty by Megan Manzano Pdf

Is capital punishment morally justified? Although the issue generates strong opinions, there are no easy answers when it comes to taking the life of a human being. Supporters of the death penalty believe it deters law-breaking and is the only punishment strong enough for horrific crimes such as child murder and genocide. Opponents argue that it violates human rights and point to its finality in the face of judicial system error and unfairness. This resource presents a fascinating progression of current viewpoints that reflect the many facets of the death penalty debate.

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 : 43,9 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 : Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489927873

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The Death Penalty by Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad Pdf

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 : Kaye Stearman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404237526

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The Debate About the Death Penalty by Kaye Stearman Pdf

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 : Lloyd H. Steffen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725216273

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Executing Justice by Lloyd H. Steffen Pdf

This compelling book incisively analyzes every philosophical and humanitarian argument about the death penalty. It is a searching study of the ultimate invalidity of all the arguments advanced to justify the ultimate power of the state. The last chapter . . . is a powerful treatment of the reasons why Christianity must logically be opposed to the death penalty. No one is entitled to be heard in the fractious debate about the death penalty until that person has pondered the material discussed in this indispensable book. -- Robert F. Drinan, SJ, Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center Lloyd Steffen has powerfully explored the moral reasoning of the death penalty. By utilizing the case of Willie Darden, he brings an abstract argument home on a personal level. Finally he poses what this means for those of us who are Christians. What will be your answer? This book provides an excellent consideration of all the available options. -- Rev. Joseph B. Ingle, Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his ministry to persons on death row We have, by now, a shelf of books that offer empirical, constitutional, or political discussions of the death penalty. What we don't have is a comprehensive, accessible, and persuasive evaluation of the death penalty in our society from the moral point of view. Thanks to Lloyd Steffen's new book, that need has been met. He enables us to see in patient detail just how difficult -- if he is right, how impossible -- it is to defend the death penalty on moral grounds. May his argument reach and persuade many! -- Hugo Adam Bedau, editor of The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies There is no moral, legal, or ethical justification for the death penalty, and Executing Justice makes this abundantly clear. Steffen makes a compelling case that America can lift itself into the league of nations that long ago abandoned this barbaric practice. -- Morris Dees, cofounder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Author : Ida Walker
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1604530553

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The Death Penalty by Ida Walker Pdf

Discusses the controversial viewpoints regarding the death penalty.

Author : James J. Megivern
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781616437923

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The Death Penalty by James J. Megivern Pdf

A comprehensive history of the death penalty in the West that provides more material on capital punishment in Western Christian history than is available in any other work in English.

Author : Ron Fridell
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Roger Hood,Carolyn Hoyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 9780198701736

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The Death Penalty by Roger Hood,Carolyn Hoyle Pdf

The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasizing the impact of international human rights principles and evidence of abuse, the authors examine how this has fueled challenges to the death penalty and they analyze and appraise the likely obstacles, political and cultural, to further abolition. They discuss the cruel realities of the death penalty and the failure of international standards always to ensure fair trials and to avoid arbitrariness, discrimination and conviction of the innocent: all violations of the right to life. They provide further evidence of the lack of a general deterrent effect; shed new light on the influence and limits of public opinion; and argue that substituting for the death penalty life imprisonment without parole raises many similar human rights concerns. This edition provides a strong intellectual and evidential basis for regarding capital punishment as undeniably cruel, inhuman and degrading. Widely relied upon and fully updated to reflect the current state of affairs worldwide, this is an invaluable resource for all those who study the death penalty and work towards its removal as an international goal.

Author : Welsh S. White
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0472064614

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The Death Penalty in the Nineties by Welsh S. White Pdf

An up-to-date examination of legal changes and shifting attitudes surrounding capital punishment

Author : Charles Calistus Burleigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : BL:A0023635862

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Thoughts on the Death Penalty by Charles Calistus Burleigh Pdf