James A. McCafferty

Capital Punishment (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presents an analyses of the nature of capital punishment and provides perspectives on the larger issues of our approach to law-breakers and their rehabilitation. This title includes the claims of both those who want to retain capital punishment and those who want to abolish it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351530200
• Artikelnr.: 48867044

Autorenporträt

James A. McCafferty

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction -JAMES A. MCCAFFERTY
Part I: Facts and Figures
1. General Introduction -HUGO A. BEDAU
2. The Use of the Death Penalty: A Factual Statement -WALTER C. RECKLESS
Part II: The Issues
3. The Capital Punishment Controversy -WILLIAM O. HOCHKAMMER, JR.
Part III: Proponents of Capital Punishment
4. In Favor of Capital Punishment -JACQUES BARZUN
5. On Deterrence and the Death Penalty -ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG
6. Capital Punishment: Your Protection and Mine -EDWARD J. ALLEN
7. A Prosecutor Looks at Capital Punishment -RICHARD E. GERSTEIN
8. The Death Penalty -JAMES V. BENNETT
Part IV: Opponents of Capital Punishment
9. Capital Punishment as Seen by a Correctional Administrator -RICHARD A.
MCGEE
10. To Abolish the Death Penalty -RAMSEY CLARK
11. Capital Punishment: The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
12. Thou Shalt Not Kill -JUDICATURE
13. For Whom the Chair Waits -SARA R. EHRMANN
14. Let's Abolish Capital Punishment -VICTOR H. EVJEN
Part V: Attack on the Death Penalty
15. Varieties of Attack on the Death Penalty -JACK GREENBERG and JACK
HIMMELSTEIN
16. The Supreme Court, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, and the Death Penalty
-SOL RUBIN
For Further Reading
Index