The Death Penalty in America: Current ControversiesHugo Adam Bedau Oxford University Press, USA, 28 de mai. de 1998 - 524 páginas In The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject, provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well. No mere revision of the third edition of The Death Penalty in America--which the New York Times praised as "the most complete, well-edited and comprehensive collection of readings on the pros and cons of the death penalty"--this volume brings together an entirely new selection of 40 essays and includes updated statistical and research data, recent Supreme Court decisions, and the best current contributions to the debate over capital punishment. From the status of the death penalty worldwide to current attitudes of Americans toward convicted killers, from legal arguments challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty to moral arguments enlisting the New Testament in support of it, from controversies over the role of race and class in the judicial system to proposals to televise executions, Bedau gathers readings that explore all the most compelling aspects of this most compelling issue. |
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Background and Developments | 3 |
Offenses Punishable by Death | 36 |
Proposed State Death Penalty Legislation 1994 | 42 |
Criminal Homicide | 55 |
Death Row Prisoners | 65 |
The Status of the Death Penalty Worldwide | 78 |
Americans Views on the Death Penalty | 90 |
Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death | 116 |
International Human Rights Law and the Death Penalty in America | 246 |
A Racially Disproportionate Death | 254 |
Research Indicates Pattern of Racial | 268 |
The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime | 275 |
Controversies from Prosecution to Execution | 310 |
A Good Murder | 319 |
The Capital | 333 |
Assessing the Danger of Mistaken | 344 |
The Controversy over Deterrence and Incapacitation | 127 |
A Review of | 135 |
Assessing | 162 |
Prison Homicides Recidivist Murder and Life Imprisonment | 176 |
The Controversy over Constitutionality | 183 |
The Death Penalty as Administered | 189 |
The Death Penalty Is Not Per | 196 |
Mandatory Death Penalties | 206 |
Constitutional Interpretation History and the Death Penalty | 214 |
Why the Death Penalty Is a Cruel and Unusual Punishment | 232 |
Habeas Corpus and Other Constitutional Controversies | 238 |
The Case of Harold Lamont Otey | 361 |
Televising Executions | 384 |
What Politicians Dont Say About the High | 401 |
For and Against | 411 |
Noahs Covenant the New Testament and Christian Social Order | 429 |
The Death Penalty Once More | 445 |
A Reply to van den Haag | 457 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 471 |
TABLE OF Cases | 501 |
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