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1. www.annualreviews.org › content › journalsThe Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the ...

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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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   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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   • Editor: Hugo Adam Bedau

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   • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

3. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › The-death-penalty[PDF] The death penalty in America : current controversies ...

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   In The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject, provides a comprehensive source-book on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well.

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   The Death Penalty in America (Bedau) - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read book online for free. Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site.

5. deathpenaltyinfo.org › facts-and-research › historyConstitutionality of the Death Penalty in America

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   Challenging the Death Penalty. The 1960s brought challenges to the fundamental legality of the death penalty. Before then, the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments were interpreted as permitting the death penalty.

6. www.jstor.org › stable › 23638991The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. Edited ...

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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.

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   When did the death penalty become arbitrary?

   • The issue of arbitrariness of the death penalty was again be brought before the Supreme Court in 1972 in Furman v. Georgia, Jackson v. Georgia, and Branch v. Texas (known collectively as the landmark case Furman v. Georgia (408 U.S. 238)). Furman, like McGautha, argued that capital cases resulted in arbitrary and capricious sentencing.

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   Was trop a death penalty case?

   • Although Trop was not a death penalty case, abolitionists applied the Court’s logic to executions and maintained that the United States had, in fact, progressed to a point that its “standard of decency” should no longer tolerate the death penalty. (Bohm, 1999)

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   When did the death penalty become unconstitutional?

   • Before then, the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments were interpreted as permitting the death penalty. However, in the early 1960s, it was suggested that the death penalty was a “cruel and unusual” punishment, and therefore unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. In 1958, the Supreme Court had decided in Trop v.

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   Is the death penalty constitutional?

   • The Court also held that the death penalty itself was constitutional under the Eighth Amendment. In addition to sentencing guidelines, three other procedural reforms were approved by the Court in Gregg.

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   Why did the Supreme Court suspend the death penalty?

   • Thus, on June 29, 1972, the Supreme Court effectively voided 40 death penalty statutes, thereby commuting the sentences of 629 death row inmates around the country and suspending the death penalty because existing statutes were no longer valid.

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8. www.elgaronline.com › downloadpdf › edcollchap1. Introduction: international perspectives on the death penalty

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   death penalty in the US in 1976, the three leading execution states (Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania) carried out over 1000 executions each. Michigan, in contrast, carried out only