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_b.D385 1991
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245 0 4 _aThe Death penalty :
_bopposing viewpoints /
_cCarol Wekesser, book editor.
250 _a2nd ed., rev.
260 _aSan Diego, CA :
_bGreenhaven Press,
_cc1991.
300 _a191 p. :
_billus. ; pbk ;
_c23 cm.
490 1 _aOpposing viewpoints series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187) and index.
505 _aThe 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.
520 _aOpposing viewpoints debate death penalty issues. Includes critical thinking activities.
650 0 _aCapital punishment.
650 0 _aCapital punishment
_zUnited States.
650 1 _aCapital punishment.
650 1 _aCritical thinking.
700 1 _aWekesser, Carol,
_d1963-
_eed.
830 0 _aOpposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
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