Is capital punishment morally required? Acts, omissions, and life-life...

Stanford Law Review;  December 1, 2005 ;   Sunstein, Cass R. Vermeule, Adrian;   787 words ...INTRODUCTION I. EVIDENCE II. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: MORAL FOUNDATIONS AND FOUR OBJECTIONS...omission distinction morally relevant to capital punishment? C. The Arbitrary and Discriminatory...Consequentialism Again III. COGNITION AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A. Salience B. Acts, Omissions, and...

The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives

Journal of Political and Military Sociology;  January 1, 2006 ;   Spohn, Ryan E;   678 words ...The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives...of the "cultural life" of capital punishment, defined as the embeddedness...exceptional in their use of capital punishment only when compared to other...

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION THE MORALITY OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

The Manila Times;  May 6, 2006 ;   Becker, Gary;   787 words ......criticized for its refusal to abolish capital punishment. Many now claim that abolition of capital punishment is a precondition of a civilized...governments are adamantly opposed to capital punishment-the European Union bans it outright-a...

Capital punishment 'makes reason stare'

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 29, 2003 ;   George F. Will;   782 words ...WASHINGTON -- Of capital punishment, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt...potential killers. He means capital punishment can deter -- can "save a...list of 12 states without capital punishment. A second reason is that...

Why I support capital punishment

Human Events;  May 19, 2000 ;   Keating, Frank;   787 words ......statistics mean one thing: Oklahoma's capital punishment statue works. Guilty killers pay...similar recodrs in the 23 years since capital punishment was reinstated. Why, then, are we...Campaign Sadly, some opponents of capital punishment have used that siolated situation...

Deterrence versus brutalization: capital punishment's differing impacts...

Michigan Law Review;  November 1, 2005 ;   Shepherd, Joanna M.;   787 words ......UNITED STATES II. THE CONFLICT IN PREVIOUS STUDIES ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND DETERRENCE A. Early Literature on Capital Punishment and Deterrence B. Modern Studies of Capital Punishment's Deterrent Effect 1. Modern Economics Papers Using...

WAITING TO EXECUTE: AN OPTIMAL STOPPING MODEL OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT STAYS

Eastern Economic Journal;  April 1, 2004 ;   Chambers, Catherine M; Chambers, Paul E;   787 words ......Association recommended a moratorium on capital punishment [New York Times, 1997]. In February...change in political will regarding capital punishment. Support for the death penalty remains...Ryan announced the moratorium on capital punishment in Illinois, support for change to...

Calif. Prison Officials Plan New Death Row

AP Online;  November 5, 2004 ;   MICHELLE LOCKE, Associated Press Writer;   636 words ......and state prison officials say the old...opposition to capital punishment or because...people since capital punishment was reinstated...project. Prison officials say they...is fair. Prison officials say the politics of capital punishment are ...

No Capital Means Capital Punishment

Atlanta Inquirer;  June 23, 2001 ;     694 words ......Inquirer 06-23-2001 No Capital Means Capital Punishment How do you feel about the recent...Timothy McVeigh? How do you feel about capital punishment in general? For many people, it seems...books? The arguments for and against capital punishment will probably go on forever, with...

Capital punishment for the crime of homicide in Chicago: 1870-1930.

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  March 22, 2002 ;   Cheatwood, Derral;   787 words ...I. INTRODUCTION: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, RACE AND POVERTY In the...the concern over whether capital punishment should be used at all. On...penalty. On the other hand, if capital punishment is rooted as fundamentally...

BIBLE SUPPORTS USE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)

The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  June 8, 2000 ;     184 words ......following the debate on the merits of capital punishment through the years, I've often seen...can only attest to the morality of capital punishment rather than to the wisdom of its...my opinion, is John 19:8-11 where capital punishment is meted out upon Jesus Christ, innocence...

Physician Involvement in Capital Punishment: Simplifying a Complex...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  September 1, 2007 ;   Lanier, William L; Berge, Keith H;   787 words ......analyzes physician participation in capital punishment executions.1 He argues provocatively...societal benefits and burdens of capital punishment is far too complex for this journal...killing, even in the context of legal capital punishment execution, there is a paucity of...

Veil of secrecy: public executions, limitations on reporting capital...

Federal Communications Law Journal;  December 1, 2002 ;   Levi, Nicholas;   787 words ......robust debate and disagreement than capital punishment. The theoretical foundations of the...arguments that often follow debates on capital punishment through the legislatures, courts...issue that is often overlooked in the capital punishment debate is the policy, adopted in...

Why Christians should question their support of capital punishment

University Wire;  March 25, 1998 ;   J. Chris Anderson;   698 words ......more on the status of capital punishment in our country. As citizens...base their support of capital punishment on the Old Testament verses...Other verses prescribing capital punishment can be found in Numbers...

Supreme Court blocks execution: Justices argue over how states carry out...

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 27, 2006 ;   Gina Holland;   611 words ......about the way states carry out capital punishment. The court's ruling will determine...the federal government and every capital punishment state but one uses lethal injection...there are no guidelines for how prison officials should execute people. Snurkowski said the protocol was ...