The Death Penalty - Justice or Revenge?
Title | The Death Penalty - Justice or Revenge? PDF eBook |
Author | Ioanna Kuçuradi |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
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Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3643913451 |
This volume consists of papers and interviews which attempt to shed a strong light on the ethical problems that the death penalty presents, to put a finger on what constitutes the core problem of this punishment, and to show where humanity stands in this respect in the first quarter of the 21 st century. Its contributors are Robert (Renny) Cushing, Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, Tsakhia Elbegdorj, Gilbert (Gill) Garcetti, Hanne Sophie Greve, Phillip F. Iya, Sylvie Zainabo Kayitesi, Ioanna Kucuradi (ed.), Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Joaquin Jos'e Martínez, Federico Mayor, Ibrahim Najjar, Rajiv Narayan, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, Bill Richardson, Jos'e Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Horacio Verbitsky and Asunta Vivo.
Just Revenge
Title | Just Revenge PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Costanzo |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1997-10-15 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780312179458 |
A professor of social psychology explores the history of execution in America, weighing its social costs, discussing its potential benefits and problems, and building a new model for understanding the politics behind the death penalty.
The Death Penalty
Title | The Death Penalty PDF eBook |
Author | İoanna Kuçuradi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Capital punishment |
ISBN | 3643963459 |
The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
Title | The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Kenneth Aladjem |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | 9780511378447 |
America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account - a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the 'rights of victims' and make pronouncements against 'evil'. Yet for Aladjem this dangerously authoritarian turn has its origins in the tradition of liberal justice itself - in theories of punishment that justify inflicting pain and in the punitive practices that result. Exploring vengeance as the defining problem of our time, Aladjem returns to the theories of Locke, Hegel and Mill. He engages the ancient Greeks, Nietzsche, Paine and Foucault to challenge liberal assumptions about punishment. He interrogates American law, capital punishment and images of justice in the media. He envisions a democratic justice that is better able to contain its vengeance.
The Death Penalty
Title | The Death Penalty PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Van den Haag |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2013-06-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1489927875 |
From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceedings challenging the death penalty on constitutional grounds. After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally decided that "the death penalty does not invariably violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment." The Court's decisions, however, do not moot the controversy about the death penalty or render this excellent book irrelevant. The ball is now in the court of the Legislature and the Executive. Leg islatures, federal and state, can impose or abolish the death penalty, within the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court. A Chief Executive can commute a death sentence. And even the Supreme Court can change its mind, as it has done on many occasions and did, with respect to various aspects of the death penalty itself, durlog the moratorium period. Also, the people can change their minds. Some time ago, a majority, according to reliable polls, favored abolition. Today, a substantial majority favors imposition of the death penalty. The pendulum can swing again, as it has done in the past.
The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
Title | The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Terry K. Aladjem |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2008-01-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1139469177 |
America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account – a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the 'rights of victims' and make pronouncements against 'evil'. Yet for Aladjem this dangerously authoritarian turn has its origins in the tradition of liberal justice itself – in theories of punishment that justify inflicting pain and in the punitive practices that result. Exploring vengeance as the defining problem of our time, Aladjem returns to the theories of Locke, Hegel and Mill. He engages the ancient Greeks, Nietzsche, Paine and Foucault to challenge liberal assumptions about punishment. He interrogates American law, capital punishment and images of justice in the media. He envisions a democratic justice that is better able to contain its vengeance.
Thoughts on the Death Penalty
Title | Thoughts on the Death Penalty PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Calistus Burleigh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1845 |
Genre | Capital punishment |
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