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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...

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   • Editor: Hugo Adam Bedau

   • Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
   • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

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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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   Sep 1, 2016 · Article PDF Available. The Death Penalty. September 2016. Authors: Giulio Carlo Venturi. University of Padova. References (19) Abstract. Capital punishment, also known as death penalty, is...

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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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   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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   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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   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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   What is capital punishment?

   • Capital punishment, also known as death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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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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   What happened to the death penalty?

   • The death penalty was embarrassment. Death penalty was abolished in Italy in 1948, in Germany by the Australia, in 1995 in South Africa. The USA seems a contemporary rampart of anachronism. Despite more than two century of activism, things have slightly changed. rooting of death penalty in American society. The harsh colonial penal codes were 50.

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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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   Mar 31, 2003 · The Death Penalty: An American History. The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person’s life as just and reasonable punishment while...