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Book Synopsis On Capital Punishment, and the extreme danger of relaxing or modifying the law in cases of murder, or death by violence, etc by : Robert Jermyn COOPER
Download or read book On Capital Punishment, and the extreme danger of relaxing or modifying the law in cases of murder, or death by violence, etc written by Robert Jermyn COOPER and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Capital Punishment by : R. Jermyn Cooper
Download or read book On Capital Punishment written by R. Jermyn Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Capital Punishment, and the Extreme Danger of Relaxing Or Modifying the Law in Cases of Murder, Or Death by Violence by : Robert Jermyn Cooper
Download or read book On Capital Punishment, and the Extreme Danger of Relaxing Or Modifying the Law in Cases of Murder, Or Death by Violence written by Robert Jermyn Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder, Capital Punishment, and the Law by : John Stolz
Download or read book Murder, Capital Punishment, and the Law written by John Stolz and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment by : Rita James Simon
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment written by Rita James Simon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty. Incorporating and synthesizing public opinion data and empirical studies, Simon and Blaskovich's work compares, across societies, the offense types punishable by death, the level of public support for the death penalty, the forms the penalty takes, and the categories of persons exempt from punishment. It examines the effectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to violent offenses, especially homicide, the extent to which innocent persons have become the victims of capital punishment, and occurrences of state sponsored genocide and democide. This book is a practical and useful tool for public policy makers, criminal justice practitioners, students, and anyone who seeks to better understand the worldwide debate on this controversial social issue.
Book Synopsis For Capital Punishment by : Walter Berns
Download or read book For Capital Punishment written by Walter Berns and published by Upa. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinguished constitutional theorist takes a hard look at current criminal law and the Supreme Court's most recent decisions regarding the legality of capital punishment. Examining the penal system, capital punishment, and punishment in general, he reviews the continuing debate about the purpose of punishment for deterrence, rehabilitation, or retribution. He points out that the steady moderation of criminal law has not effected a corresponding moderation in criminal ways or improved the conditions under which men must live. He decries the "pious sentiment" of those who maintain that criminals need to be rehabilitated. He concludes that the real issue is not whether the death penalty deters crime, but that in an imperfect universe, justice demands the death penalty. Originally published by Basic Books in 1979.
Book Synopsis Among the Lowest of the Dead by : David Von Drehle
Download or read book Among the Lowest of the Dead written by David Von Drehle and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough and unbiased, Among the Lowest of the Dead is a gripping narrative that provides an unprecedented journalistic look into the actual workings of the capital punishment system. "Has all the tension of the best true crime stories . . . This is journalism at its best." --Library Journal "A compelling argument against capital punishment. . . . Examining politicians, judges (including Supreme Court Justices), prosecutors, defense attorneys and the condemned themselves, the author makes an effective case that, despite new laws, execution is no less a lottery than it has always been." --Publishers Weekly "In a fine and important book, Von Drehle writes elegantly and powerfully. . . . Anyone certain of their opinion about the death penalty ought to read this book." -- Booklist "An extremely well-informed and richly insightful book of great value to students of the death penalty as well as intelligent general readers with a serious interest in the subject, Among the Lowest of the Dead is also exciting reading. The book is an ideal guide for new generations of readers who want to form knowledgeable judgments in the continuing--and recently accelerating--controversies about capital punishment." --Anthony Amsterdam, New York University "Among the Lowest of the Dead is a powerfully written and meticulously researched book that makes an invaluable contribution to the growing public dialogue about capital punishment in America. It's one of those rare books that bridges the gap between mass audiences and scholarly disciplines, the latter including sociology, political science, criminology and journalism. The book is required reading in my Investigative Journalism classes--and my students love it!" --David Protess, Northwestern University "Among The Lowest of the Dead deserves a permanent place in the literature as literature, and is most relevant to today's death penalty debate as we moderate advocates and abolitionists search for common ground." --Robert Blecker, New York Law School David Von Drehle is Senior Writer, The Washington Post and author of Triangle: The Fire that Changed America.
Book Synopsis Capital Punishment by : Lill Scherdin
Download or read book Capital Punishment written by Lill Scherdin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in the past and present. It also examines how international, transnational and national forces intersect in order to understand the possibilities of future death penalty abolition. The chapters cover the USA - the only western democracy that still uses the death penalty - and Asia - the site of some 90 per cent of all executions. Also included are discussions of the death penalty in Islam and its practice in selected Muslim majority countries. There is also a comparative chapter departing from the response to the mass killings in Norway in 2011. Leading experts in law, criminology and human rights combine theory and empirical research to further our understanding of the relationships between ways of governance, the role of leadership and the death penalty practices. This book questions whether the death penalty in and of itself is a hazard to a sustainable development of criminal justice. It is an invaluable resource for all those researching and campaigning for the global abolition of capital punishment.
Book Synopsis The Penalty of Death by : Josiah Oldfield
Download or read book The Penalty of Death written by Josiah Oldfield and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Comparative Capital Punishment by : Carol S. Steiker
Download or read book Comparative Capital Punishment written by Carol S. Steiker and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth century, capital punishment remains in force in a substantial number of countries around the globe. This research handbook explores both the forces behind the stunning recent rejection of the death penalty, as well as the changing shape of capital practices where it is retained. The expert contributors address the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on both retention and abolition of the death penalty and consider the distinctive possibilities and pathways to worldwide abolition.
Download or read book The Killing State written by Austin Sarat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 7,000 people have been legally executed in the United States this century, and over 3,000 men and women now sit on death rows across the country awaiting the same fate. Since the Supreme Court temporarily halted capital punishment in 1972, the death penalty has returned with a vengeance. Today there appears to be a widespread public consensus in favor of capital punishment and considerable political momentum to ensure that those sentenced to death are actually executed. Yet the death penalty remains troubling and controversial for many people. The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture explores what it means when the state kills and what it means for citizens to live in a killing state, helping us understand why America clings tenaciously to a punishment that has been abandoned by every other industrialized democracy. Edited by a leading figure in socio-legal studies, this book brings together the work of ten scholars, including recognized experts on the death penalty and noted scholars writing about it for the first time. Focused more on theory than on advocacy, these bracing essays open up new questions for scholars and citizens: What is the relationship of the death penalty to the maintenance of political sovereignty? In what ways does the death penalty resemble and enable other forms of law's violence? How is capital punishment portrayed in popular culture? How does capital punishment express the new politics of crime, organize positions in the "culture war," and affect the structure of American values? This book is a timely examination of a vitally important topic: the impact of state killing on our law, our politics, and our cultural life.
Book Synopsis Capital Punishment by : James A. McCafferty
Download or read book Capital Punishment written by James A. McCafferty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous people face legal execution in the United States. Their presence in death rows throughout the country refutes a basic premise of our judicial system, for the use of capital punishment denies the existence of universal rehabilitation. There is another paradox-juries continue to sentence men and women to death; yet few ever get executed. Whether one is for or against capital punishment, one cannot approach the issue without deep emotion and conviction. James McCafferty provides an even-tempered, eminently reasonable discussion of the issue with balanced commentary from both sides of the debate. McCafferty presents not only empirical data and analyses of the nature of capital punishment, but provides perspectives on the larger issues of our approach to lawbreakers and their rehabilitation. The claims of both those who want to retain capital punishment and those who want to abolish it are included. The arguments consider whether capital punishment deters crime as well as the question of discrimination. A wealth of references, an extremely useful bibliography, and a final chapter delineating the legal issues facing the courts at the time the book was originally published in 1972 complete this unusually incisive and balanced study. Capital Punishment remains an important volume in the field of criminal justice. It seeks to educate rather than propagandize. It is intended for use in numerous courses in sociology and political science as well as in law schools. Anyone wishing to gain a perspective on what remains a controversial issue more than thirty years later would be well advised to study this work by world-class scholars.
Download or read book Stay of Execution written by Charles Lane and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in cooperation with Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California."--T.p.
Book Synopsis When the State Kills by : Austin Sarat
Download or read book When the State Kills written by Austin Sarat and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents arguments to support the author's contention that Capital punishment undermines democratic societies and must be abolished.
Book Synopsis Courting Death by : Carol S. Steiker
Download or read book Courting Death written by Carol S. Steiker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the face of widespread abolition of the death penalty around the world, provisions for capital punishment that had long fallen under the purview of the states were challenged in federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in two landmark decisions, first by constitutionally invalidating the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia (1972) on the grounds that it was capricious and discriminatory, followed four years later by restoring it in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). Since then, by neither retaining capital punishment in unfettered form nor abolishing it outright, the Supreme Court has created a complex regulatory apparatus that has brought executions in many states to a halt, while also failing to address the problems that led the Court to intervene in the first place. While execution chambers remain active in several states, constitutional regulation has contributed to the death penalty’s new fragility. In the next decade or two, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue, the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment. Courting Death illuminates both the promise and pitfalls of constitutional regulation of contentious social issues.
Book Synopsis The Death Penalty in America by : Hugo Adam Bedau
Download or read book The Death Penalty in America written by Hugo Adam Bedau and published by Aldine. This book was released on 1968 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Death is Different by : Hugo Adam Bedau
Download or read book Death is Different written by Hugo Adam Bedau and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1987 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
