Capital Punishment: A Bibliography with Indexes
- ISBN-10
- 1590335317
- ISBN-13
- 9781590335314
- Series
- Capital Punishment
- Category
- Capital punishment
- Pages
- 146
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Nova Publishers
- Author
- C. Cliff
Description
The issue of capital punishment is a continually-debated issue because it calls into question the values and direction of society. How is a civilisation supposed to handle lawbreakers? Are some crimes so heinous and some people so dangerous that the death penalty is the only appropriate response? The United States Constitution prohibits 'cruel and unusual punishment', but opinions on whether that includes capital punishment are vehement on both sides. Many states have some form of death penalty, and public opinion seems to indicate support of it in principle. However, many firestorms have erupted recently over the application of the penalty, including the topics of its use on minors and those with mental disabilities. There are also questions raised about how much of a factor race plays in a capital sentence. Internationally, several countries have foresworn the death penalty, with certain countries in Europe and the Americas refusing to extradite criminal suspects (including suspected terrorists) to the US if capital punishment is a possible sentence. With such politically flammable and ethically challenging issues hanging over it, capital punishment is a vitally important issue to understand. To help facilitate that study, this book assembles a carefully selected and substantial listing of literature focussing on the death penalty. Anyone researching this area of criminal justice will find this book an important tool as it offers easy access to the most relevant works about capital punishment. Following the bibliography, further access is provided with author, title, and subject indexes.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2023-06-15
- 316 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
-
- 2023-06-15
- 359 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Similar books
-
Death Penalty USA, 2001-2002
By Michelangelo Delfino, Mary E. DayGarza commissioned some of his workers to murder De La Fuente, but they were unable to do so because a small entourage that included Gilberto Matos, an associate of De La Fuente and drug smuggler who worked with Garza, ...
-
End of the Line: Five Short Novels about the Death Penalty
By Elizabeth Gaskell, Herman Melville, Leonid AndreyevFive short novels about the death penalty: includes Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo; Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Dead Alive by Wilkie Collins; Billy Budd by Herman Melville and The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid ...
-
Crime and Capital Punishment
By George F. Cole, Robert H. LoebPresents an overview of the history of capital punishment, theories on the causes of crime and the deterrent effects of punitive actions, and the moral and legal principles involved.
-
Deathwork: Defending the Condemned
By Michael Mello5 The Electric Chair : Bob Sullivan I note that both the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Humane Society of the United States prohibit electrocution as a means to euthanize animals . —Georgia Supreme Court Justice Leah ...
-
Shepherds and Butchers
By Chris MarnewickHow can one man take such a dual role of friend and executioner, becoming both shepherd and butcher? Inspired by true events, this is the story that puts the death penalty on trial and changes history.
-
No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States
By Andrew Welsh-HugginsOr is it, in the words of the Furman majority more than thirty years ago, still applied in a manner so arbitrary as to be freakish? In his concurring opinion in Furman, Justice William Brennan pointed out the obvious: the United States ...
-
An Eye for an Eye?: The Morality of Punishing by Death
By Stephen NathansonAn Eye for an Eye?: The Morality of Punishing by Death
-
Capital Punishment in Independent Ireland: A Social, Legal and Political History
By David M. Doyle, Liam O'CallaghanIn addition, the report noted Boylan's respectable working-class background.24 More importantly, given the conventional approach to cases theretofore, Mr Justice O'Byrne recommended a reprieve. Describing Boylan as 'an irascible ...
-
Understanding Capital Punishment Law
By Linda E. Carter, Ellen Kreitzberg, Scott W. Howe103 Those men are: Ronald Gray, Dwight Loving, Todd Dock, Melvin Turner, James Murphy, Ronnie Curtis, Joseph Thomas, Curtis Gibb, Jose Simoy, Kenneth Parker, Wade Walker, William Kreutzer, Jesse Quintanilla, Andrew Witt, Hassan Akbar, ...
-
Wretched Sisters: Examining Gender and Capital Punishment
By Mary Welek Atwelland Tucker struggled over the pickax . Thornton was wounded in several places when Danny returned . He kicked her in the head , took the weapon , and finally drove the ax into her chest . Tucker and Garrett picked up the frame used to ...