RT Book
T1 Reflections on Capital Punishment
A1 Warden, Rob
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866339710
AB Authored by the Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, this powerful article reviews the many different arguments against the death penalty and uses a multitude of case discussions to show how the death penalty works, not in theory, but in practice. Some of these arguments include: the death penalty does not have a demonstrable deterrent effect; it costs more to maintain the system than to imprison murderers for life; many wrongfully condemned defendants have been saved by the serendipitous discovery of evidence not available during trial; innocent persons have been executed; the death penalty has been applied in a freakish manner and not pain-free; and time and geography often is the deciding factor in capital and non-capital cases. The Article uses the case discussions to conclude that the death penalty is more objectionable today than ever before