An eye for an eye : the immorality of punishing by death / Stephen Nathanson.
2001
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Author
Title
An eye for an eye : the immorality of punishing by death / Stephen Nathanson.
Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2001]
Copyright
©2001
Call Number
HV8694 .N37 2001
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0742513254 (alk. paper)
0742513262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742513262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xv, 205 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47658957
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Arthur J. Goldberg
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
1
Respect for Life
1
2
Killing to Protect Life: The Deterrence Argument
15
3
The Economic Argument for Executions
33
4
Should We Execute Those Who Deserve to Die?
42
5
The Problem of Unjust Deserts
59
6
Do Murderers Deserve to Die?
69
7
Deserving to Die
83
8
Is the Death Penalty Cruel and Unusual?
96
9
Vengeance and Vigilantism
108
10
What If the Death Penalty Did Save Lives?
119
11
The Death Penalty As A Symbolic Issue
131
Epilogue
147
Postscripts to the Second Edition
149
Notes
187
Selected Bibliography
197
Index
203