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Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-500) and index Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL ""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""TABLES""; ""FIGURES""; ""1 Background and Developments""; ""Part I: The Laws, the Crimes, and the Executions""; ""2 Offenses Punishable by Death""; ""3 Proposed State Death Penalty Legislation, 1994""; ""4 Criminal Homicide""; ""5 Death Row Prisoners""; ""6 The Status of the Death Penalty Worldwide""; ""Part II: The Controversy over Public Support for the Death Penalty: The Death Penalty versus Life Imprisonment""; ""7 Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty""; ""8 Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty"" ""Part III: The Controversy over Deterrence and Incapacitation""""9 Murder, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence: A Review of the Literature""; ""10 A National Study of the Furman-Commuted Inmates: Assessing the Threat to Society from Capital Offenders""; ""11 Prison Homicides, Recidivist Murder, and Life Imprisonment""; ""Part IV: The Controversy over Constitutionality""; ""12 Furman v. Georgia, 1972: The Death Penalty as Administered Is Unconstitutional""; ""13 Gregg v. Georgia, 1976: The Death Penalty Is Not Per Se Unconstitutional"" ""14 Woodson v. North Carolina, 1976: Mandatory Death Penalties Are Unconstitutional""""15 Coker v. Georgia, 1977: The Death Penalty for Rape Is Unconstitutional""; ""16 Constitutional Interpretation, History, and the Death Penalty""; ""17 Why the Death Penalty Is a Cruel and Unusual Punishment""; ""18 Habeas Corpus and Other Constitutional Controversies""; ""19 International Human Rights Law and the Death Penalty in America""; ""Part V: The Controversy over Race and Class""; ""20 McCleskey v. Kemp, 1987: A Racially Disproportionate Death Penalty System Is Not Unconstitutional"" ""21 Death Penalty Sentencing: Research Indicates Pattern of Racial Disparities""""22 Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer""; ""Part VI: Controversies from Prosecution to Execution""; ""23 ""A Good Murder""""; ""24 How American Juries Decide Death Penalty Cases: The Capital Jury Project""; ""25 Innocence and the Death Penalty: Assessing the Danger of Mistaken Executions""; ""26 An Appeal for Clemency: The Case of Harold Lament Otey""; ""27 To See or Not to See: Televising Executions""; ""28 Witness to Another Execution"" ""29 Millions Misspent: What Politicians Don't Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty""""Part VII: The Death Penalty: For and Against""; ""30 The New Testament and Moral Arguments for Capital Punishment""; ""31 Noah's Covenant, the New Testament, and Christian Social Order""; ""32 The Death Penalty Once More""; ""33 A Reply to van den Haag""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""TABLE OF CASES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z"" Background and developmentsPart I. The laws, the crimes, and the executions. Offenses punishable by death ; Proposed state death penalty legislation, 1994 ; Criminal homicide ; Death row prisoners ; The status of the death penalty worldwide -- Part II. The controversy over public support for the death penalty : the death penalty versus life imprisonment. Hardening of the attitudes : Americans' views on the death penalty / Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Samuel R. Gross -- Sentencing for life : Americans embrace alternatives to the death penalty / Richard C. Dieter -- Part III. The controversy over deterrence and incapacitation. Murder, capital punishment, and deterrence : a review of the literature / William C. Bailey, Ruth D. Peterson -- A national study of the Furman-commuted inmates : assessing the threat to society from capital offenders / James W. Marquart, Jonathan R. Sorensen -- Prison homicides, recidivist murder, and life imprisonment / H.A. Bedau -- Part IV. The controversy over constitutionality. Furman v. Georgia, 1972 : the death penalty as administered is unconstitutional ; Gregg v. Georgia, 1976 : the death penalty is not per se unconstitutional ; Woodson v. North Carolina, 1976 : mandatory death penalties are unconstitutional ; Coker v. Georgia, 1977 : the death penalty for rape is unconstitutional ; Constitutional interpretation, history, and the death penalty / David A.J. Richards -- Why the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment ; Habeas corpus and other constitutional controversies ; International human rights law and the death penalty in America / H.A. Bedau -- Part V. The controversy over race and class. McCleskey v. Kemp, 1987 : a racially disproportionate death penalty system is not unconstitutional ; Death penalty sentencing : research indicates pattern of racial disparities / U.S. General Accounting Office -- Counsel for the poor : the death sentence not for the worst crime but for the worst lawyer / Stephen B. Bright -- Part VI. Controversies from prosecution to execution. The deadliest D.A. / Tina Rosenberg -- How American juries decide death penalty cases : the Capital Jury Project / Joseph L. Hoffman -- Innocence and the death penalty : assessing the danger of mistaken executions -- An appeal for clemency : the case of Harold Lamont Otey / Larry Myers -- To see or not to see : televising executions. Why KQED should win / Henry Schwarzschild ; Why KQED should lose / Robert R. Bryan -- Witness to another execution / Susan Blaustein -- Millions misspent : what politicians don't say about the high costs of the death penalty / Richard C. Dieter -- Part VII. The death penalty : for and against. The New Testament and moral arguments for capital punishment / H. Wayne House -- Noah's covenant, the New Testament, and Christian social order / John Howard Yoder -- The death penalty once more / Ernest van den Haag -- A reply to van den Haag / H.A. Bedau. |
