The death penalty in America : current controversies / edited by Hugo Adam Bedau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bedau, Hugo Adam.

Series:

Oxford paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--United States.

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 524p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty in America. It follows up on Bedau's "Death Penalty in America", third edition. It includes new readings, updated statistical and research data, recent Supreme Court decisions, and contributions to the debate over capital punishment.

This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty in America. It follows up on, though is much more than a revision of, Bedau's Death Penalty in America, third edition (OUP, 1982). Virtually all the readings are new, and include updated statistical and research data, recent Supreme Court decisions, and major recent contributions to the debate over capital punishment.

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

TABLES

FIGURES

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

INDEX

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Notes:

Originally published: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028408-0

1-283-84858-9

0-19-976142-6

OCLC:

922903917