RT Article
T1 The Pros and Cons of Life Without Parole
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 47
IS 4
SP 597
OP 615
A1 Appleton, Catherine
A2 Grover, Bent
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639138862
AB The question of how societies should respond to their most serious crimes if not with the death penalty is perhaps the oldest of all the issues raised by the two-century struggle in western civilization to end the death penalty' (Bedau, 1990: 481). In this article we draw attention to the rapid and extraordinary increase in the use of life imprisonment without parole' in the United States. We aim to critically assess the main arguments put forward by supporters of whole life imprisonment as a punishment provided by law to replace the death penalty and argue against life-long detention as the ultimate sanction
K1 Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe
K1 Bewährung
K1 Menschenwürde
K1 USA
K1 Menschenrechte