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• ISBN: 0737719117
• ISBN: 9780737719116
• ISBN: 0737719125
• ISBN: 9780737719123
• Physical Description: 237 pages ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, [2005]
• Copyright: ©2005

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

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Capital punishment > United States > History.

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