Ryan was not the first governor to exercise the power of clemency broad brush . ... Governor Ryan's concerns ran more to practical concerns with the manner in which the Illinois death penalty was implemented .
PMID: 4668419 Haines, Herbert H. Against capital punishment: the anti-death penalty movement in America, 1972-1994 / Herbert H. Haines. Published/Created: New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Projected Pub.
It included pieces by Vaclav Havel, Jim Hightower, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pablo Neruda, Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, and Marian Wright Edelman, among others. I am a journalist by trade, if not by training.
For instance, Anderson (1973) describes how in 1852 the 'lurking menace of powerful Indian tribes' led to the shooting of a newly settled sheepherder. The two accused were tracked down, assembled on a ship at Vancouver Island for a ...
Writing for the majority, Justice Powell concluded that “the Baldus study does not demonstrate a constitutionally significant risk of racial bias affecting the Georgia capital sentencing process” and that McCleskey's arguments would be ...
Mass murderers like Timothy McVeigh or serial killers like Alton Coleman have always qualified . Coleman committed a series of murders , kidnappings , rapes , and robberies in 1984. Prosecutor Michael Allen of Hamilton County ...
Kentucky , 94 Beccaria , Cesare , 14 , 73 , 107–108 , 140-143 , 203 Beck v . Alabama , 92 Bedau , Hugo Adam , 41–42 , 46–47 , 108-109 , 203 , 213 , 216 Beheading , 174-175 Beman , Lemar T. , 216 Bentham , Jeremy , 53 , 109 , 128 Benz ...
This volume brings together articles examining the death penalty process, with particular emphasis on capital trials.
Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Douglas dissented. One year later, Justices Harlan and Black had retired, and McGautha was reversed in Furman v. Georgia. PART TWO—FROM FURMAN TO GREGG: 1972–1976 Introduction During the 1960s, ...
American Sociological Review 67.1: 109–131. DOI: 10.2307/3088936 The likelihood that a US state permits capital punishment is related to the state's race and ethnic composition, degree of economic inequality, and conservative political ...
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is a journey to the dark side of people and places that lie just out of view, waiting for the moment to tear a life apart.
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.
The text covers the history of the death penalty in the U.S. from colonial times to the present day; the relevant landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases from Furman v.
Examines the debate and issues surrounding the death penalty by presenting its history, significant court rulings, and opinions and arguments from supporters and detractors alike.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is a journey to the dark side of people and places that lie just out of view, waiting for the moment to tear a life apart.
... principled opposition to diplomatic assurances that the death penalty will not be sought. The UN Independent Expert on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism explained the distinction ...
Explains what capital punishment is, what methods have been used in the past and present, and explores arguments for and against it.
Can it ever be acceptable for a humane society to put a human being to death? In this new volume in The Pilgrim Library of Ethics, a wide range of...
This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in the past and present.
Marie J. MacNee, Outlaws, Mobsters, and Crooks from the Old West to the Internet. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Desmond Manderson, ed., Courting Death: The Law of Mortality. Sterling, VA: Pluto, 1999. J. Michael Martinez, William D. Richardson, ...