RT Book
T1 Killing as punishment: reflections on the death penalty in America
A1 Bedau, Hugo Adam 1926-2012
LA English
PP Boston
PB Northeastern University Press
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1611187850
AB Introduction -- The death penalty in America, yesterday and today -- American populism : witnesses to an execution -- Convicting and executing the innocent -- Executive clemency in capital cases -- The choice between imprisonment and death -- A moral reading of the Eighth Amendment -- Human dignity and the Eighth Amendment -- Using moral principles to argue about the death penalty -- Abolishing the death penalty even for the worst murderers -- Epilogue
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-232) and index
CN HV8699.U5
SN 155553595X
K1 Capital Punishment : United States
K1 Capital Punishment : Political aspects : United States
K1 Capital Punishment : Moral and ethical aspects : United States
K1 Bibliografie