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Capital punishment is used in the U.S. (it was briefly suspended from 1972-1976 as a result of the Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia). There has been ...
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Deathquest III: An Introduction to the Theory & Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States (Robert M. Bohm)
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“The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The ...
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Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds of ...
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Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become ...
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A disposition in politics to preserve what is established, the political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, ...
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The Bitter Fruit of American Justice examines two increasingly important factors in the debate over state execution, the conjunction of which may well ...
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No Choirboy takes readers inside America’s prisons, and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices—raw ...
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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric ...
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New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious ...
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A gripping examination of the case for and against capital punishment by a respected criminal lawyer and celebrated novelist. In the words of Harvard Law ...
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Cruel and unusual punishment is one of the most contentious issues in modern times. The condemnation of cruel and unusual punishment is universal. But, ...
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It was a crime that shocked the nation, a brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child, by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill ...
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The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others ...
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Designed to meet the needs of high school and college students as well as members of the general public seeking clear explanations of basic government ...
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This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice system today--the death penalty. Paternoster et al. present a balanced ...
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In January 2000, Illinois Governor George H. Ryan declared a moratorium on state executions. Three years later, Ryan commuted all Illinois death sentences ...
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Some people believe strongly in "an eye for an eye," while others feel that nothing justifies the state-sanctioned killing of a human being. ...
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Natural law is a fact about human beings, and a theory that humbles itself before this fact. Yet it is something else as well-a sign of contradiction, ...
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Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring--a way of life learned at ...
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