Death Penalty USA, 2007-2008

Death Penalty USA, 2007-2008
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Publisher : MoBeta Publishing
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9780972514187
ISBN-13 : 097251418X
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Death Penalty USA, 2007-2008 by : Michelangelo Delfino

Deterrence and the Death Penalty

Deterrence and the Death Penalty
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Publisher : National Academies Press
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9780309254168
ISBN-13 : 0309254167
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Deterrence and the Death Penalty by : National Research Council

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 Execution of Willie Francis

The Execution of Willie Francis
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Publisher : Civitas Books
Total Pages : 410
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015076181703
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Execution of Willie Francis by : Gilbert King

The inspiration behind "A Lesson Before Dying" meets the best of John Grisham as a young Cajun lawyer fights to save a black teenager from the electric chair. 16-page b&w photo insert.

The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty

The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781479881574
ISBN-13 : 1479881570
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty by : Mary Kreiner Ramirez

"An unprecedented breakdown in the rule of law occurred in the United States after the 2008 financial collapse. Myriad large banks settled securities fraud claims for failing to disclose the risks of subprime mortgages they sold to the investing public. Rather than breaking up these powerful megabanks, , the government accepted fines that essentially punished innocent shareholders instead of senior leaders at the megabanks. In [this book the authors] examine the wrongdoing underlying the financial crisis. They reveal that the government failed to use its most powerful law enforcement tools despite overwhelming proof of fraud on Wall Street before, during, and after the crisis. The pattern of criminal indulgences exposes a new degree of crony capitalism in which the powerful can commit financial crimes of vast scale with criminal and regulatory immunity. A new economic royalty has seized the commanding heights of our economy through their control of trillions in corporate and individual wealth and their ability to dispense patronage. The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty shows that this new lawlessness poses a profound threat that urgently demands political action and proposes attainable measures to restore the rule of law in the financial sector." -- Book jacket.

Courting Death

Courting Death
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780674737426
ISBN-13 : 0674737423
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Courting Death by : Carol S. Steiker

Before constitutional regulation -- The Supreme Court steps in -- The invisibility of race in the constitutional revolution -- Between the Supreme Court and the states -- The failures of regulation -- An unsustainable system? -- Recurring patterns in constitutional regulation -- The future of the American death penalty -- Life after death

The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence

The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 10
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ISBN-10 : 9781139469203
ISBN-13 : 1139469207
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence by : Frank R. Baumgartner

Since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by more than 60 percent, reversing a generation-long trend toward greater acceptance of capital punishment. In theory, most Americans continue to support the death penalty. But it is no longer seen as a theoretical matter. Prosecutors, judges, and juries across the country have moved in large numbers to give much greater credence to the possibility of mistakes - mistakes that in this arena are potentially fatal. The discovery of innocence, documented in this book through painstaking analyses of media coverage and with newly developed methods, has led to historic shifts in public opinion and to a sharp decline in use of the death penalty by juries across the country. A social cascade, starting with legal clinics and innocence projects, has snowballed into a national phenomenon that may spell the end of the death penalty in America.

Debating the Death Penalty

Debating the Death Penalty
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0195179803
ISBN-13 : 9780195179804
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Debating the Death Penalty by : Hugo Adam Bedau

Experts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.

Moving Away from the Death Penalty

Moving Away from the Death Penalty
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Publisher : UN
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9211542154
ISBN-13 : 9789211542158
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Moving Away from the Death Penalty by : Ivan Šimonović

Capital punishment is irrevocable. It prohibits the correction of mistakes by the justice system and leaves no room for human error, with the gravest of consequences. There is no evidence of a deterrent effect of the death penalty. Those sacrificed on the altar of retributive justice are almost always the most vulnerable. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the discriminatory application of the death penalty, wrongful convictions, proven lack of deterrence effect, to legality of the capital punishment under international law and the morality of taking of human life.

Capital Punishment in Japan

Capital Punishment in Japan
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9004124217
ISBN-13 : 9789004124219
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Capital Punishment in Japan by : Petra Schmidt

This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.

Let the Lord Sort Them

Let the Lord Sort Them
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9781524760274
ISBN-13 : 1524760277
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Let the Lord Sort Them by : Maurice Chammah

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment. Then, amid a larger wave of criminal justice reform, came the death penalty’s decline, a trend so durable that even in Texas the punishment appears again close to extinction. In Let the Lord Sort Them, Maurice Chammah charts the rise and fall of capital punishment through the eyes of those it touched. We meet Elsa Alcala, the orphaned daughter of a Mexican American family who found her calling as a prosecutor in the nation’s death penalty capital, before becoming a judge on the state’s highest court. We meet Danalynn Recer, a lawyer who became obsessively devoted to unearthing the life stories of men who committed terrible crimes, and fought for mercy in courtrooms across the state. We meet death row prisoners—many of them once-famous figures like Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Graham, and Karla Faye Tucker—along with their families and the families of their victims. And we meet the executioners, who struggle openly with what society has asked them to do. In tracing these interconnected lives against the rise of mass incarceration in Texas and the country as a whole, Chammah explores what the persistence of the death penalty tells us about forgiveness and retribution, fairness and justice, history and myth. Written with intimacy and grace, Let the Lord Sort Them is the definitive portrait of a particularly American institution.