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Abolish Capital Punishment
Abolition States
amendment
Author_James A. McCafferty
Capital Offenders
Capital Offense
Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment Controversy
Capital Punishment Issue
Capital Trials
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Commit Capital Crimes
criminal justice reform
criminology research
Death Penalty Provisions
Death Penalty Statutes
Death Row
Edward J. Allen
eighth
Eighth Amendment
Electric Chair
empirical analysis of death penalty
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Ernest van den haag
Executive Clemency
Favor Capital Punishment
Homicide Rates
Hugo A. Bedau
Jack Greenberg
Jack Himmelstein
Jacques Barzun
James V. Bennett
judicial decision making
legal ethics
Life Term Prisoner
Low Murder Rate
Malice Aforethought
NA Judicature
Prisoners Serving Life Sentences
Ramsey Clark
rehabilitation theory
Retain Capital Punishment
Richard A. Mcgee
Richard E. Gerstein
Sara R. Ehrmann
sentencing disparities
Sol Rubin
Unusual Punishment
Victor H. Evjen
Violate
Walter C. Reckless
William O. Hochkammer
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780202363288
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Numerous people face legal execution in the United States. Their presence in death rows throughout the country refutes a basic premise of our judicial system, for the use of capital punishment denies the existence of universal rehabilitation. There is another paradox-juries continue to sentence men and women to death; yet few ever get executed. Whether one is for or against capital punishment, one cannot approach the issue without deep emotion and conviction. James McCafferty provides an even-tempered, eminently reasonable discussion of the issue with balanced commentary from both sides of the debate. McCafferty presents not only empirical data and analyses of the nature of capital punishment, but provides perspectives on the larger issues of our approach to lawbreakers and their rehabilitation. The claims of both those who want to retain capital punishment and those who want to abolish it are included. The arguments consider whether capital punishment deters crime as well as the question of discrimination. A wealth of references, an extremely useful bibliography, and a final chapter delineating the legal issues facing the courts at the time the book was originally published in 1972 complete this unusually incisive and balanced study. Capital Punishment remains an important volume in the field of criminal justice. It seeks to educate rather than propagandize. It is intended for use in numerous courses in sociology and political science as well as in law schools. Anyone wishing to gain a perspective on what remains a controversial issue more than thirty years later would be well advised to study this work by world-class scholars.
