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Aug 10, 2015 · During the long eighteenth century the capital code, and more specifically the so-called ‘Bloody Code’, which subjected a vast and increasing range of property crimes to the death penalty, was the centre of much popular attention and of extensive debate. 1 Hangings attracted huge, ambivalent and often unruly crowds. 2 Newspapers reported ...
- Peter King, Richard Ward
- 2015
Aug 1, 2015 · During the long eighteenth century the capital code, and more specifically the so-called ‘Bloody Code’ which subjected a vast and increasing range of property crimes to the death penalty, was the centre of much popular attention and of extensive debate.
- Peter King, Richard Ward
- 10.1093/pastj/gtv026
- 2015
- 2015/08/08
I will also identify four problems arising from specific kinds of uncertainties present in current death penalty debates: (1) uncertainty in harm, (2) uncertainty in blame, (3) uncertainty in rights, and (4) uncertainty in causal consequences.
This article questions this critique and does so by addressing the criticisms that have been raised against those who have challenged the validity of this framework of analysis and by reaffirming the case for seeing the rise of certain new penal trends as indicative of an emergent postmodern penality.
- Simon Hallsworth
- 2002
Jun 5, 2012 · Richard Davies. Chapter. Get access. Cite. Summary. I am prompted by this futile excess of punishments, which have never made men better, to enquire whether the death penalty is really useful and just in a well-organised state. By what right can men presume to slaughter their fellows?
Apr 1, 2002 · In this article, I explore one venue where this relationship is evident: among pro-death penalty communications on the Internet. I examine these messages in part because they seem to reveal, rather explicitly, the affective, symbolic nature of popular support for capital punishment in the USA.
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Jan 5, 2016 · Abstract. Although a sizable number of studies have gathered information from college students regarding their varying degrees of support for capital punishment, few have explored the underlying rationales behind these students’ death penalty support or opposition.
