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Title:

The death penalty / Jean Alicia Elster, book editor.

Publisher:

Greenhaven Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

237 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Capital punishment--History.

Other Authors:

Elster, Jean Alicia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-229) and index.

Contents:

IS THE DEATH PENALTY CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT? : Electrocution is not cruel and unusual punishment / Melville Weston Fuller -- The death penalty is not as cruel and unusual as life imprisonment / Jacques Barzun -- The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment / William O. Douglas and William J. Brennan, Jr. -- The death penalty is not always cruel and unusual punishment / Potter Stewart -- Executing juveniles is cruel and unusual punishment / John Paul Stevens -- The Supreme Court's ruling that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment is wrong / Cameron Talley -- THE DETERRENCE DEBATE: The death penalty is not the best deterrent to crime / Cesare Beccaria -- The death penalty deters potential murderers / John Stuart Mill -- The death penalty deters juries from convicting murderers -- The death penalty is necessary to protect society / J. Edgar Hoover -- Statistics can neither prove nor disprove that capital punishment deters murderers / James Q. Wilson -- FAIRNESS AND THE DEATH PENALTY: Racial discrimination in death penalty sentences must be proved on a case-by-case basis / Lewis F. Powell -- Many people have been wrongfully sentenced to death in New York / Marty I. Rosenbaum -- Slavery, lynching, and the death penalty as methods of social control / William S. McFeely -- The death penalty is fair / Walter Berns and Joseph Bessette -- Women are no longer spared the death penalty because of their gender / Elizabeth Rapaport -- The death penalty is unfair and should be abolished / Austin Sarat -- DNA technology can assure the fairness of the death penalty / New York Post -- MORAL ISSUES: The death penalty is immoral and should be abolished / Benjamin Rush -- The death penalty is sanctioned by God / Jacob J. Vellenga -- The death penalty is forbidden by Jewish law / Israel J. Kazis -- The moral benefits of the death penalty / Ernest van den Haag -- Michigan's moral stand against the death penalty / Eugene G. Wanger.

Series:

The history of issues

ISBN:

9780737719123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0737719125 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780737719116
0737719117

LCCN:

2004043661

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

N4AX745 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Emmetsburg (Emmetsburg)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

HNPC845 -- Hawarden Public Library (Hawarden)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)