Punishment and the death penalty : the current debate / edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum.

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Other Authors: Baird, Robert M., 1937-, Rosenbaum, Stuart E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, ©1995.
Series:Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Punishment / J.D. Mabbott
  • Two concepts of rules / John Rawls
  • Therapy, not punishment / Karl Menninger
  • Punishment v. rehabilitation / Richard Wasserstrom
  • Persons and punishment / Herbert Morris
  • Playing fair with punishment / Richard Dagger
  • Punishment of the innocent / Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, & Constance E. Putnam
  • A general history of capital punishment in America / Information Plus
  • The crusade against capital punishment / J. Gordon Melton
  • On deterrence and the death penalty - Ernest van den Haag
  • Casting the first stone / Lloyd Steffen
  • In spite of innocence : erroneous convictions in capital cases / Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, & Constance E. Putnam
  • The morality of anger / Walter Berns
  • Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered? / Stephen Nathanson
  • Justice, civilization, and the death penalty : answering van den Haag / Jeffrey H. Reiman
  • Refuting Reiman and Nathanson / Ernest van den Haag
  • Safely executed / Christie Davies
  • Capital punishment and contemporary values : people's misgivings and the court's misperceptions / William Bowers
  • Callins v. Collins : Justice Blackmun's dissenting opinion
  • Callins v. Collins : Justice Scalia's concurring opinion.