Debating the death penalty
Subtitle: should America have capital punishment? : the experts on both sides make their best case
By: edited by Hugo Adam Bedau and Paul Cassell.
Contributors: Bedau, Hugo Adam.; Cassell, Paul G.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tinkering with death /  Alex Kozinski; title: An abolitionist's survey of the death penalty in America today /  Hugo Adam Bedau; title: Why the death penalty is morally permissible /  Louis P. Pojman; title: Close to death : reflections on race and capital punishment in America /  Bryan Stevenson; title: Truth and consequences : the penalty of death /  Joshua K. Marquis; title: Why the United States will join the rest of the world in abandoning capital punishment /  Stephen B. Bright; title: In defense of the death penalty /  Paul G. Cassell; title: "I must act" /  George Ryan.