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May 28, 1998 · From the status of the death penalty worldwide to current attitudes of Americans toward convicted killers, from legal arguments challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty to...
- Hugo Adam Bedau
- illustrated, reprint, revised
- Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
May 28, 1998 · Why the Death Penalty Is a Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Habeas Corpus and Other Constitutional Controversies. International Human Rights Law and the Death Penalty in America. A Racially...
- reprint
- Oxford University Press, 1998
- Hugo Adam Bedau
- The Death Penalty in America
Jan 25, 2011 · The death penalty has achieved an unparalleled prominence in America's public life and left an indelible imprint on politics and culture. It has also provoked intense scholarly debate, much of it devoted to explaining the roots of American exceptionalism.
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 ...
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.
Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty (c2001), by Constitution Project (Georgetown Public Policy Institute) (PDF at constitutionproject.org) Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty in the USA (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
We review the chronology of the use of the death penalty since 1800 and more specifically since 1976, we look at its geographical distribution internationally and across the fifty states, we assess the racial breakdown of those executed, and we present other basic background information.
