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   The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see...

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   This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it?

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   Sep 11, 2015 · Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 ...

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   No mere revision of the third edition of The Death Penalty in America (1982) this volume brings together an entirely new selection of 40 essays and includes updated statistical and research data, recent Supreme Court decisions, and the best current contributions to the debate over capital punishment.

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   May 28, 1998 · In The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject, provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty, making...

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   Oct 2, 2020 · Paternoster shows that life sentences may actually be less expensive than execution and a more effective deterrent than the infrequently imposed death penalty. In addition, life sentences could require prisoners to pay a portion of their prison wages to their victims' survivors.

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   Does the death penalty arouse our passions?

   • The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane and barbaric act. But the intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes often obscures its long and varied history in this country.

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   Did Americans pursue the death penalty?

   • But Americans throughout the northern states did pursue it. Looking back in 1854, a New York lawyers’ magazine concluded: “There is no legal question which has been so thoroughly and extensively discussed as that concerning the death penalty; no law which has been enacted, repealed, and reenacted, as has that of Capital Punishment.”

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   Should the death penalty be reserved for a thief or counterfeiter?

   • All became capital crimes in the American colonies as well. Today even capital punishment’s most ardent supporters would recoil at the notion of executing thieves or counterfeiters. We have a consensus that if the death penalty is to be used at all it should be reserved for those who commit the gravest crimes.

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   How has capital punishment changed over the years?

   • Law professor Stuart Banner tells the story of how, over four centuries, dramatic changes have taken place in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the penalty was standard for a laundry list of crimes--from adultery to murder, from arson to stealing horses.

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   When did capital punishment go down?

   • In the first half of the twentieth century capital punishment went into decline. The annual number of executions in the United States reached what was probably its all-time peak in 1935, at 199. It then began to drop sharply. Nineteen forty-seven was the last year with more than 150 executions. Nineteen fifty-one was the last with more than 100.

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   Is the death penalty a Tour de force?

   • Steve Weinberg, Legal Times Reviews of this book: Stuart Banner's The Death Penalty is a tour de force, remarkable for its neutrality as it traces the ways in which the death penalty has been applied, and for what kinds of crimes, from the Colonial era to the present.

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   explore the key elements of the controversies of the ongoing death penalty debate in the United States. What Professor Bedau has offered is a handbook for those already acquainted with the key issues and who favour the abolition of the death penalty, but want to have a useful reference to handle the arguments that often erupt on this subject.