The death penalty in America : current controversies / edited by Hugo Adam Bedau.
1997
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Title
The death penalty in America : current controversies / edited by Hugo Adam Bedau.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Call Number
HV8699.U5 D37 1997
ISBN
0195104382 (alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)34282370
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-500) and index.
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Table of Contents
Tables
Figures
1
Background and Developments
3
2
Offenses Punishable by Death
36
3
Proposed State Death Penalty Legislation, 1994
42
4
Criminal Homicide
55
5
Death Row Prisoners
65
6
The Status of the Death Penalty Worldwide
78
7
Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty / Phoebe C. Ellsworth Samuel R. Gross
90
8
Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty / Richard C. Dieter
116
9
Murder, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence: A Review of the Literature / William C. Bailey Ruth D. Peterson
135
10
A National Study of the Furman-Commuted Inmates: Assessing the Threat to Society from Capital Offenders / James W. Marquart Jonathan R. Sorensen
162
11
Prison Homicides, Recidivist Murder, and Life Imprisonment / H. A. Bedau
176
12
Furman v. Georgia, 1972: The Death Penalty as Administered Is Unconstitutional
189
13
Gregg v. Georgia, 1976: The Death Penalty Is Not Per Se Unconstitutional
196
14
Woodson v. North Carolina, 1976: Mandatory Death Penalties Are Unconstitutional
206
15
Coker v. Georgia, 1977: The Death Penalty for Rape Is Unconstitutional
210
16
Constitutional Interpretation, History, and the Death Penalty / David A. J. Richards
214
17
Why the Death Penalty Is a Cruel and Unusual Punishment / H. A. Bedau
232
18
Habeas Corpus and Other Constitutional Controversies / H. A. Bedau
238
19
International Human Rights Law and the Death Penalty in America / H. A. Bedau
246
20
McCleskey v. Kemp, 1987: A Racially Disproportionate Death Penalty System Is Not Unconstitutional
254
21
Death Penalty Sentencing: Research Indicates Pattern of Racial Disparities U.S. General Accounting Office
268
22
Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer / Stephen B. Bright
275
23
The Deadliest D.A. / Tina Rosenberg
319
24
How American Juries Decide Death Penalty Cases: The Capital Jury Project / Joseph L. Hoffman
333
25
Innocence and the Death Penalty: Assessing the Danger of Mistaken Executions
344
26
An Appeal for Clemency: The Case of Harold Lamont Otey / Larry Myers
361
27
To See or Not to See: Televising Executions / Henry Schwarzschild Robert R. Bryan
384
28
Witness to Another Execution / Susan Blaustein
387
29
Millions Misspent: What Politicians Don't Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty / Richard C. Dieter
401
30
The New Testament and Moral Arguments for Capital Punishment / H. Wayne House
415
31
Noah's Covenant, the New Testament, and Christian Social Order / John Howard Yoder
429
32
The Death Penalty Once More / Ernest van den Haag
445
33
A Reply to van den Haag / H. A. Bedau
457
Bibliography
471
Table of Cases
501
Index
503