Debating the death penalty : should America have capital punishment? : the experts on both sides make their best case /

When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public...

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Drugi avtorji: Bedau, Hugo Adam, Cassell, Paul G.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Online dostop:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120899
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  • Introduction
  • Tinkering with death / Alex Kozinski
  • An abolitionist's survey of the death penalty in America today / Hugo Adam Bedau
  • Why the death penalty is morally permissible / Louis P. Pojman
  • Close to death : reflections on race and capital punishment in America / Bryan Stevenson
  • Truth and consequences : the penalty of death / Joshua K. Marquis
  • Why the United States will join the rest of the world in abandoning capital punishment / Stephen B. Bright
  • In defense of the death penalty / Paul G. Cassell
  • "I must act" / George Ryan.