Capital Punishment
Auteur : McCafferty James A.
Preface
Introduction -JAMES A. MCCAFFERTY
Part I: Facts and Figures
1. General Introduction -HUGO A. BEDAU
2. The Use of the Death Penalty: A Factual Statement -WALTER C. RECKLESS
Part II: The Issues
3. The Capital Punishment Controversy -WILLIAM O. HOCHKAMMER, JR.
Part III: Proponents of Capital Punishment
4. In Favor of Capital Punishment -JACQUES BARZUN
5. On Deterrence and the Death Penalty -ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG
6. Capital Punishment: Your Protection and Mine -EDWARD J. ALLEN
7. A Prosecutor Looks at Capital Punishment -RICHARD E. GERSTEIN
8. The Death Penalty -JAMES V. BENNETT
Part IV: Opponents of Capital Punishment
9. Capital Punishment as Seen by a Correctional Administrator -RICHARD A. MCGEE
10. To Abolish the Death Penalty -RAMSEY CLARK
11. Capital Punishment: The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
12. Thou Shalt Not Kill -JUDICATURE
13. For Whom the Chair Waits -SARA R. EHRMANN
14. Let's Abolish Capital Punishment -VICTOR H. EVJEN
Part V: Attack on the Death Penalty
15. Varieties of Attack on the Death Penalty -JACK GREENBERG and JACK HIMMELSTEIN
16. The Supreme Court, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, and the Death Penalty -SOL RUBIN
For Further Reading
Index
Date de parution : 11-2009
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 10-2017
Mots-clés :
Prisoners Serving Life Sentences; Life Term Prisoner; Executive Clemency; Capital Punishment Controversy; Abolish Capital Punishment; Retain Capital Punishment; Commit Capital Crimes; Capital Punishment Issue; eighth; Capital Punishment; amendment; Death Penalty Provisions; Hugo A; Bedau; Abolition States; Walter C; Reckless; Death Row; William O; Hochkammer; Eighth Amendment; Jacques Barzun; Death Penalty Statutes; Ernest van den haag; Violate; Edward J; Allen; Low Murder Rate; Richard E; Gerstein; Malice Aforethought; James V; Bennett; Young Man; Richard A; Mcgee; Homicide Rates; Ramsey Clark; Unusual Punishment; NA Judicature; Electric Chair; Sara R; Ehrmann; Capital Trials; Victor H; Evjen; Capital Offense; Jack Greenberg; Favor Capital Punishment; Jack Himmelstein; Capital Offenders; Sol Rubin