Against The Death Penalty
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Against The Death Penalty
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Author : Jon Yorke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Against The Death Penalty written by Jon Yorke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Law categories.
This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist discourse. The contributors consider the current developments within the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the African Commission and the Commonwealth Caribbean, and engage with the emergence of regional norms promoting collective restriction and renunciation of the punishment. They investigate perspectives and questions for retentionist countries, focusing on the United States, China, Korea and Taiwan, and reveal the iniquities of contemporary capital judicial systems. Emphasis is placed on the issues of transparency of municipal jurisdictions, the jurisprudence on the 'death row phenomenon' and the changing nature of public opinion. The volume surveys and critiques the arguments used to scrutinize the death penalty to then offer a detailed analysis of possible replacement sanctions.
Abolition
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Author : Robert Badinter
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2008-08-29
Abolition written by Robert Badinter and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-29 with History categories.
The English translation of a behind-the-scenes account of the abolition of the death penalty in France
Debating The Death Penalty
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Author : Hugo Adam Bedau
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-24
Debating The Death Penalty written by Hugo Adam Bedau and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-24 with History categories.
Experts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.
Dead Wrong
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Author : Michael Mello
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1997
Dead Wrong written by Michael Mello and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Law categories.
Winner of the 1998 Award for Excellence in Indexing, American Society of Indexers and H. W. Wilson Company
The Death Penalty
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Author : Louis P. Pojman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The Death Penalty written by Louis P. Pojman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Two distinguished social and political philosophers take opposing positions in this highly engaging work. Louis P. Pojman justifies the practice of execution by appealing to the principle of retribution: we deserve to be rewarded and punished according to the virtue or viciousness of our actions. He asserts that the death penalty does deter some potential murderers and that we risk the lives of innocent people who might otherwise live if we refuse to execute those deserving that punishment. Jeffrey Reiman argues that although the death penalty is a just punishment for murder, we are not morally obliged to execute murderers. Since we lack conclusive evidence that executing murderers is an effective deterrent and because we can foster the advance of civilization by demonstrating our intolerance for cruelty in our unwillingness to kill those who kill others, Reiman concludes that it is good in principle to avoid the death penalty, and bad in practice to impose it.
Against Capital Punishment
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Author : Benjamin S. Yost
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-13
Against Capital Punishment written by Benjamin S. Yost and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-13 with Philosophy categories.
The specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. So-called proceduralist arguments against the death penalty are attractive to death penalty abolitionists because they sidestep the controversies that bedevil moral critiques of execution. Proceduralists do not shoulder the burden of demonstrating that heinous murderers deserve a punishment less than death. However, proceduralist arguments often pay insufficient attention to the importance of punishment; many imply the highly contentious claim that no type of criminal sanction is legitimate. In Against Capital Punishment, Benjamin S. Yost revitalizes the core of proceduralism both by examining the connection between procedural injustice and the impermissibility of capital punishment and by offering a comprehensive argument of his own which confronts proceduralism's most significant shortcomings. Yost is the first author to develop and defend the irrevocability argument against capital punishment, demonstrating that the irremediability of execution renders capital punishment impermissible. His contention is not that the act of execution is immoral, but rather that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes precludes the just administration of the death penalty. Shoring up proceduralist arguments for the abolition of the death penalty, Against Capital Punishment carries with it implications not only for the continued use of the death penalty in the criminal justice system, but also for the structure and integrity of the system as a whole.
The Case Against The Death Penalty
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Author : Hugo Adam Bedau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Case Against The Death Penalty written by Hugo Adam Bedau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Capital punishment categories.
Against The Death Penalty
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Author : Stephen Breyer
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2016-08-23
Against The Death Penalty written by Stephen Breyer and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-23 with Political Science categories.
"A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty. Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Breyer argues that it does; that it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently and, thus, violates the ban on ""cruel and unusual punishments"" specified by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. “Today’s administration of the death penalty,” Breyer writes, “involves three fundamental constitutional defects: (1) serious unreliability, (2) arbitrariness in application, and (3) unconscionably long delays that undermine the death penalty’s penological purpose. Perhaps as a result, (4) most places within the United States have abandoned its use.” This volume contains Breyer's dissent in the case of Glossip v. Gross, which involved an unsuccessful challenge to Oklahoma's use of a lethal-injection drug because it might cause severe pain. Justice Breyer's legal citations have been edited to make them understandable to a general audience, but the text retains the full force of his powerful argument that the time has come for the Supreme Court to revisit the constitutionality of the death penalty. Breyer was joined in his dissent from the bench by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Their passionate argument has been cited by many legal experts including fellow Justice Antonin Scalia—as signaling an eventual Court ruling striking down the death penalty. A similar dissent in 1963 by Breyer's mentor, Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, helped set the stage for a later ruling, imposing what turned out to be a four-year moratorium on executions."
Against The Death Penalty
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Author : Gardner C. Hanks
language : en
Publisher: Herald Press (VA)
Release Date : 1997
Against The Death Penalty written by Gardner C. Hanks and has been published by Herald Press (VA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Political Science categories.
Drawing on Old and New Testament resources as well as secular arguments, Gardner C. Hanks shows that the death penalty harms rather than helps any quest for a just, humane society. He demonstrates through research data that the death penalty is an ineffective crime-fighting tool.
Ending The Death Penalty
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Author : A. Hammel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-06-16
Ending The Death Penalty written by A. Hammel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-16 with Law categories.
Examining the successful movements to abolish capital punishment in the UK, France, and Germany, this book examines the similarities in the social structure and political strategies of abolition movements in all three countries. An in-depth comparative analysis with other countries assesses chances of success of abolition elsewhere.