Equal Justice and the Death Penalty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Equal Justice and the Death Penalty write by David C. Baldus. This book was released on 1990. Equal Justice and the Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Equal Justice for Victims
Equal Justice for Victims - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Equal Justice for Victims write by Lester Jackson. This book was released on 2017-10-23. Equal Justice for Victims available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book's title is derived from two shocking facts, one largely unknown: (1) the disgracefully scandalous mistreatment of victims of violent crime; and (2) the ghastly gap in the value placed on the lives of victims vs. barbaric criminals. ... EJV has three parts. The first describes the death penalty's conflicting political combatants. The secod explains why one side has prevailed over the other. The final and most important part explains how to compel this country's rulers to adopt a policy that values the lives of victims of savagery at least as highly as those of savages. The solution can only be political. It must be made clear that the United States Supreme Court decides the most controversial cases on the basis of politics rather than law. The most activist justices are politicians with same low integrity associated with politicians. Placing a high value on decent victims will first require a political campaign to educate the public about the Supreme Court's fraudulent illegitimacy."--Back cover.
Debating the Death Penalty
Debating the Death Penalty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debating the Death Penalty write by Hugo Adam Bedau. This book was released on 2005-03-24. Debating the Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.
Opinion On The Death Penalty
Opinion On The Death Penalty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opinion On The Death Penalty write by Gwyneth Caffarelli. This book was released on 2021-06-11. Opinion On The Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every day, people are executed and sentenced to death by the state as punishment for a variety of crimes - sometimes for acts that should not be criminalized. In some countries, it can be for drug-related offenses, in others it is reserved for terrorism-related acts and murder. Some countries execute people who were under 18 years old when the crime was committed, others use the death penalty against people with mental and intellectual disabilities and several others apply the death penalty after unfair trials - in clear violation of international law and standards. People can spend years on death row, not knowing when their time is up, or whether they will see their families one last time. The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. Amnesty opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception - regardless of who is accused, the nature or circumstances of the crime, guilt or innocence, or method of execution. Excellent factual information in this book gives the reader a chance to form their own opinion on the death penalty.
Let the Lord Sort Them
Let the Lord Sort Them - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Let the Lord Sort Them write by Maurice Chammah. This book was released on 2021-01-26. Let the Lord Sort Them available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment. Then, amid a larger wave of criminal justice reform, came the death penalty’s decline, a trend so durable that even in Texas the punishment appears again close to extinction. In Let the Lord Sort Them, Maurice Chammah charts the rise and fall of capital punishment through the eyes of those it touched. We meet Elsa Alcala, the orphaned daughter of a Mexican American family who found her calling as a prosecutor in the nation’s death penalty capital, before becoming a judge on the state’s highest court. We meet Danalynn Recer, a lawyer who became obsessively devoted to unearthing the life stories of men who committed terrible crimes, and fought for mercy in courtrooms across the state. We meet death row prisoners—many of them once-famous figures like Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Graham, and Karla Faye Tucker—along with their families and the families of their victims. And we meet the executioners, who struggle openly with what society has asked them to do. In tracing these interconnected lives against the rise of mass incarceration in Texas and the country as a whole, Chammah explores what the persistence of the death penalty tells us about forgiveness and retribution, fairness and justice, history and myth. Written with intimacy and grace, Let the Lord Sort Them is the definitive portrait of a particularly American institution.
