The Death Penalty in America

Name: The Death Penalty in America | Current Controversies
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Current Controversies

Hugo Adam Bedau(Herausgeber*in)

OUP USA (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 28. Mai 1998

545 Seiten

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CONTENTS
TABLES
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1 Background and Developments
Part I: The Laws, the Crimes, and the Executions
2 Offenses Punishable by Death
3 Proposed State Death Penalty Legislation, 1994
4 Criminal Homicide
5 Death Row Prisoners
6 The Status of the Death Penalty Worldwide
Part II: The Controversy over Public Support for the Death Penalty: The Death Penalty versus Life Imprisonment
7 Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty
8 Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Part III: The Controversy over Deterrence and Incapacitation
9 Murder, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence: A Review of the Literature
10 A National Study of the Furman-Commuted Inmates: Assessing the Threat to Society from Capital Offenders
11 Prison Homicides, Recidivist Murder, and Life Imprisonment
Part IV: The Controversy over Constitutionality
12 Furman v. Georgia, 1972: The Death Penalty as Administered Is Unconstitutional
13 Gregg v. Georgia, 1976: The Death Penalty Is Not Per Se Unconstitutional
14 Woodson v. North Carolina, 1976: Mandatory Death Penalties Are Unconstitutional
15 Coker v. Georgia, 1977: The Death Penalty for Rape Is Unconstitutional
16 Constitutional Interpretation, History, and the Death Penalty
17 Why the Death Penalty Is a Cruel and Unusual Punishment
18 Habeas Corpus and Other Constitutional Controversies
19 International Human Rights Law and the Death Penalty in America
Part V: The Controversy over Race and Class
20 McCleskey v. Kemp, 1987: A Racially Disproportionate Death Penalty System Is Not Unconstitutional
21 Death Penalty Sentencing: Research Indicates Pattern of Racial Disparities
22 Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer
Part VI: Controversies from Prosecution to Execution
23 "A Good Murder
24 How American Juries Decide Death Penalty Cases: The Capital Jury Project
25 Innocence and the Death Penalty: Assessing the Danger of Mistaken Executions
26 An Appeal for Clemency: The Case of Harold Lament Otey
27 To See or Not to See: Televising Executions
28 Witness to Another Execution
29 Millions Misspent: What Politicians Don't Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty
Part VII: The Death Penalty: For and Against
30 The New Testament and Moral Arguments for Capital Punishment
31 Noah's Covenant, the New Testament, and Christian Social Order
32 The Death Penalty Once More
33 A Reply to van den Haag
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TABLE OF CASES
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