The death penalty
Subtitle: opposing viewpoints
By: Diane Andrews Henningfeld, book editor ; Bonnie Szumski, publisher ; Helen Cothran, managing editor.
Contributors: Henningfeld, Diane Andrews.
Series: Opposing viewpoints; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States; Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Is the death penalty just? Death penalty is just / Antonin Scalia; title: Death penalty is unjust / Anthony G. Amsterdam; title: Death penalty kills innocent people / Daily Record Advisory Board; title: Death penalty protects innocent people / Jeff Jacoby; title: Executions deliver reasonable retribution / Bob Goodlatte; title: Executions do not deliver reasonable retribution / Robert Grant; title: Death penalty is consistent with religious ethics / Kerby Anderson; title: Death penalty is not consistent with religious ethics / Kenneth R. Overberg; title: Does the death penalty deter crime? Common sense proves that the death penalty deters crime / Richard A. Devine; title: Common sense proves that the death penalty does not deter crime / Marshall Dayan; title: Studies show that the death penalty deters crime / Iain Murray; title: Studies show that the death penalty does not deter crime / Ted Goertzel; title: Death penalty protects Americans from terrorism / Johnny Sutton; title: Death penalty makes Americans more vulnerable to terrorists / Timothy H. Edgar; title: Is the death penalty applied fairly? Death penalty discriminates against racial minorities / Christina Swarns; title: Death penalty does not discriminate against racial minorities / John Perazzo; title: Juveniles should not receive the death penalty / Anthony M. Kennedy; title: Juveniles should not be exempt from the death penalty / Sandra Day O'Connor; title: DNA evidence will make the death penalty more fair / Paul A. Logli; title: DNA evidence does not make the death penalty more fair / Richard Dieter; title: Attorney incompetence makes the death penalty unfair / Friends committee on Legislation Education Fund; title: Attorney competence does not make the death penalty unfair / Joshua K. Marquis; title: Should the death penalty be reformed? Death penalty should be abolished / Women's Bar Association of the State of New York; title: Death penalty must be maintained / Dudley Sharp; title: Death penalty must be reformed / Steven D. Stewart; title: Death penalty is too flawed to be fixed / Amnesty International; title: Death penalty costs too much / George Sjostrom; title: Death penalty does not cost too much / Jon Sorensen; title: Lethal injection should be abolished / Lancet; title: Lethal injection should be maintained / Kyle Janek.