Deterrence 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 Deterrence and the Death Penalty write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2012-05-26. Deterrence and the Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.
The Case Against the Death Penalty
The Case Against 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 The Case Against the Death Penalty write by Hugo Adam Bedau. This book was released on 1984. The Case Against the Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
End of Its Rope
End of Its Rope - 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 End of Its Rope write by Brandon Garrett. This book was released on 2017-09-25. End of Its Rope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance -- The other death penalty -- The execution decline -- End game -- The triumph of mercy
The Death Penalty
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 The Death Penalty write by Ernest Van den Haag. This book was released on 2013-06-29. The Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceedings challenging the death penalty on constitutional grounds. After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally decided that "the death penalty does not invariably violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment." The Court's decisions, however, do not moot the controversy about the death penalty or render this excellent book irrelevant. The ball is now in the court of the Legislature and the Executive. Leg islatures, federal and state, can impose or abolish the death penalty, within the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court. A Chief Executive can commute a death sentence. And even the Supreme Court can change its mind, as it has done on many occasions and did, with respect to various aspects of the death penalty itself, durlog the moratorium period. Also, the people can change their minds. Some time ago, a majority, according to reliable polls, favored abolition. Today, a substantial majority favors imposition of the death penalty. The pendulum can swing again, as it has done in the past.
The Death of Punishment
The Death of Punishment - 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 The Death of Punishment write by Robert Blecker. This book was released on 2013-11-19. The Death of Punishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. After thousands of hours over twenty-five years inside maximum security prisons and on death rows in seven states, the history and philosophy professor exposes the perversity of justice: Inside prison, ironically, it's nobody's job to punish. Thus the worst criminals often live the best lives. The Death of Punishment challenges the reader to refine deeply held beliefs on life and death as punishment that flare up with every news story of a heinous crime. It argues that society must redesign life and death in prison to make the punishment more nearly fit the crime. It closes with the final irony: If we make prison the punishment it should be, we may well abolish the very death penalty justice now requires.
