02998pam a2200373 a 4500 2486007 AU-EpEBC 20151217121538.0 910304s1991 caua b 001 0 eng 91009931 0899081800 (lib. bdg.) 089908155X (pbk.) DLC DLC DLC lcac n-us--- HV8694 .D385 1991 364.6/6 20 EW The Death penalty : opposing viewpoints / Carol Wekesser, book editor. 2nd ed., rev. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c1991. 191 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 23 cm. Opposing viewpoints series Includes bibliographical references (p. 187) and index. The death penalty will discourage crime (1701) / Paper presented before the English Parliament -- The death penalty will not discourage crime (1764) / Cesare Beccaria -- Society must retain the death penalty for murder (1868) / John Stuart Mill -- The death penalty is state-sanctioned murder (1872) / Horace Greeley -- Capital punishment is a safeguard for society (1925) / Robert E. Crowe -- Capital punishment will not safeguard society (1928) / Clarence Darrow -- The death penalty is just / Jacob Sullum -- The death penalty is unjust / Lloyd Steffen -- Christians can morally support the death penalty / Michael Pakaluk -- Christians cannot morally support the death penalty / John Dear -- Executing juvenile murderers is just / Ernest van den Haag -- Executing juvenile murderers is unjust / Glenn M. Bieler -- The death penalty is an effective punishment / Robert W. Lee -- The death penalty is not an effective punishment / Matthew L. Stephens -- The death penalty deters murder / Steven Goldberg -- The death penalty does not deter murder / Stephen Nathanson -- Limitless appeals make the death penalty ineffective / William H. Rehnquist -- Limiting death sentence appeals would harm civil rights / Stephen Reinhardt -- The death penalty discriminates against blacks / Anthony G. Amsterdam -- The death penalty does not discriminate against blacks / Laurence W. Johnson -- The death penalty discriminates against the poor / Michael E. Endres -- Guilt overrides the importance of death penalty discrimination / Ernest van den Haag -- Drug dealers should be executed / Alfonse D'Amato & William F. Buckley Jr. -- Drug dealers should not be executed / Sandra R. Acosta -- Terrorists should be executed / Robert A. Friedlander -- Terrorists should not be executed / Amnesty International. Opposing viewpoints debate death penalty issues. Includes critical thinking activities. Capital punishment. Capital punishment United States. Capital punishment. Critical thinking. Wekesser, Carol, 1963- ed. Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered) ddc 35729 35729 0 0 ddc 0 0 300 Social sciences MAIN MAIN OS 2013-04-08 Donated by Valentin Vasilev, 2009-2011. 2.00 0 364.66/DEA 13511 2013-04-08 00:00:00 1 50.00 2013-04-08 AM