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The Death penalty : opposing viewpoints / Carol Wekesser, book editor.

Contributor(s): Series: Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)Publication details: San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c1991.Edition: 2nd ed., revDescription: 191 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0899081800 (lib. bdg.)
  • 089908155X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.6/6 20
LOC classification:
  • HV8694 .D385 1991
Contents:
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.
Summary: Opposing viewpoints debate death penalty issues. Includes critical thinking activities.
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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.

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