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Book Synopsis Report of the Governor's Study Commission on Capital Punishment by : Pennsylvania. Governor's Study Commission on Capital Punishment
Download or read book Report of the Governor's Study Commission on Capital Punishment written by Pennsylvania. Governor's Study Commission on Capital Punishment and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment by : Illinois. Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment
Download or read book Report of the Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment written by Illinois. Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :340 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis To Establish Constitutional Procedures for the Imposition of Capital Punishment by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures
Download or read book To Establish Constitutional Procedures for the Imposition of Capital Punishment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Until I Could Be Sure by : George H. Ryan
Download or read book Until I Could Be Sure written by George H. Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2000, Illinois Governor George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions—the first such action by any governor in the history of the United States. Despite a long history as a death penalty proponent, Ryan was emotionally moved after allowing an execution in 1999. He was also profoundly disturbed by the state’s history—12 men had been executed and 13 had been exonerated since the return of the death penalty in Illinois in 1977. More had been proven innocent than had been executed. Three years later, in 2003, Ryan pardoned four death row inmates based on their actual innocence and then commuted the death sentences of 167 men and women. This was the largest death row commutation in U.S. history. At that time, 12 states and the District of Columbia barred the death penalty. His actions breathed new life into the movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Over the next 15 years, Illinois and seven other states would abolish the death penalty—New Jersey, Maryland, New Mexico, Connecticut, Delaware, New York and Washington. Today, the push to reform the criminal justice system has never been stronger in America, a nation that incarcerates more men and women than any other country in the world and also wrongfully convicts hundreds of men and women. Although the number of executions carried out every year continues to drop in the U.S., the death penalty still exists in 31 states. Moreover, in some non-death penalty states, factions seek to reinstate it. Until I Could Be Sure: How I Stopped the Death Penalty in Illinois is, in his own words, the story of George Ryan’s journey from death penalty proponent to death penalty opponent. His story continues to resonate today. He defied the political winds and endured the fury and agony of the families of the victims and the condemned as well as politicians, prosecutors and law enforcement. It is a story of courage and faith. It is a timely reminder of the heroic acts of a Republican Governor who was moved by conscience, his faith and a disturbing factual record of death row exonerations.
Book Synopsis New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission Report by : New Jersey. Death Penalty Study Commission
Download or read book New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission Report written by New Jersey. Death Penalty Study Commission and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Official Reports of the Supreme Court by : United States. Supreme Court
Download or read book Official Reports of the Supreme Court written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Deterrence and the Death Penalty by : National Research Council
Download or read book Deterrence and the Death Penalty written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Questioning Capital Punishment by : James R. Acker
Download or read book Questioning Capital Punishment written by James R. Acker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather than answering them, Questioning Capital Punishment offers the footing needed to allow for more informed consideration and analysis of these controversies. Acker edits judicial decisions that have addressed constitutional challenges to capital punishment and its administration in the United States and uses complementary materials to offer historical, empirical, and normative perspectives about death penalty policies and practices. This book is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes in criminal justice.
Book Synopsis United States Reports by : United States. Supreme Court
Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by : Pennsylvania. Governor's Study Commission on Capital Punishment
Download or read book Report written by Pennsylvania. Governor's Study Commission on Capital Punishment and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Death Penalty by : United Nations Social Defence Research Institute
Download or read book The Death Penalty written by United Nations Social Defence Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :802 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Senate Reports by : United States. Congress. Senate
Download or read book Senate Reports written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment, Volume 2 by : Peter Hodgkinson
Download or read book The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment, Volume 2 written by Peter Hodgkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is understood and posited. Of particular interest is the attention given to an integral but often forgotten element of the abolition debate: alternatives to capital punishment. The volume also provides an account of strategies employed by the abolition community which challenges tired methodologies and offers a level of transparency previously unseen. This collection tackles complex but fundamental components of the capital punishment debate using empirical data and expert observations and is essential reading for those wishing to comprehend the fundamental issues which underpin capital punishment discourse.
Book Synopsis The Death Penalty Today by : Robert M. Bohm
Download or read book The Death Penalty Today written by Robert M. Bohm and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 30 years after the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, it is still plagued with egregious problems. Issues of wrongful conviction, inhumane practices, and its efficacy as a deterrent are hotly debated topics. As of August 2007, two-thirds of the worlds countries have abolished the death penalty. Today, the US falls alongside I
