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Intro -- Introduction -- 1. For and Against the Death Penalty FlameHorse -- 2. Moral Arguments Complicate Support of the Death Penalty  Jeffrey Howard -- 3. The Green Mile and the Death Penalty in Pop Culture  Alyssa Rosenberg -- 4. The Alarming Cost of a Death Penalty Trial  Alex Mayyasi -- 5. Evidence for the Death Penalty as a Deterrent Is Lacking  Carolyn Hoyle and Roger Hood -- 6. Race and Its Impact on Death Penalty Cases  Katherine Beckett and Heather Evans -- 7. How Gender Affects the Death Penalty  Amanda Oliver -- 8. Misrepresentation in Capital Cases  Capital Punishment in Context -- 9. How State Ordered Executions Challenge Medical Ethics  James K. Boehnlein -- 10. Lethal Injections and the Law Soli Salgado -- 11. Lethal Injections Aren't More Humane  Joel B. Zivot -- 12. Changing the Code of Ethics Could End the Death Penalty  Tara Culp-Ressler -- 13. Innocent People Can Receive the Death Penalty  Nicole Colson -- 14. The Death Penalty Has Consequences for Families, Too  Federica Valabrega -- 15. Problems with Today's Death Penalty System  Marc Hyden -- 16. The Fate of the Death Penalty Abroad  Viasna -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 13 -- 14 -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 -- 20 -- 21 -- 22 -- 23 -- 24 -- 25 -- 26 -- 27 -- 28 -- 31 -- 32 -- 33 -- 34

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Suitable Punishment? -- The View Worldwide -- The Death Penalty in History -- The Movement for Abolition -- Some Religious Views -- Thou shalt not kill"? -- Retribution or Vengeance? -- Justice for the Victim? -- Life in Prison -- Does it Stop Crime? -- Is it Cost-Effective? -- Who is Executed? -- A Poor Person's Punishment? -- Race and the Death Penalty -- Who Should Not Be Executed? -- Case Studies -- Abolition or Not? -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Index -- Back Cover

Royal traditions: capital punishment in the Colonies (1607-1670) -- A competition of faith: beginning of the anti-death penalty movement (1690s) -- A reason for violence: America and the ideals of the Enlightenment (1764-1790) -- Acts of cruelty: the origins of cruel and unusual punishment (1641-1790s) -- The roots of abolition: early studies and laws against the death penalty (1792-1820) -- A private affair?: 'Jacksonian Reform' and capital punishment (1800-1850) -- Mandating death: states struggle with sentencing (1800s-1840s) -- The first reform: the debate begins in earnest (1840s-1852) -- The second reform: the progressive movement takes on capital punishment (1900s) -- Industrial execution: invention of the electric chair (1880-1890) -- A test of cruelty: the evolving definition of punishment (1878-1910) -- A deadly air: the gas chamber is introduced (1920s) -- Execution at war: the military and capital punishment (1775-present) -- Crimes against the nation: treason, sedition, and espionage (1798-1953) -- Random acts: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1940s-1970s) -- The right to kill: ongoing support for the death penalty (1950s-1970s) -- A commitment to do no harm: physician involvement and lethal injection in capital punishment (1970s-2000s) -- Rational behavior: capital punishment and insanity (1920s-1980s) -- Age of guilt: juvenile offenders and the criminal justice system (1800s-2000s) -- Wrongful execution: the fallibility of the legal system (1912-1980s) -- In the interest of survivors: the victim's rights movement (1950s-present) -- Death and politics: a rise in support for the death penalty (1980s-1990s) -- Extreme crimes: assassinations and terrorist attacks (1900s-present) -- The ability to understand: the death penalty and mental capacity (1800s-present) -- States of execution: the abolition movement in individual states (2000s) -- Methods of execution: pharmaceutical companies become involved in the abolition movement (2010s) -- The question of deterrence: societal effects of the death penalty (1800s-present) -- The future of the death penalty: changing public perceptions of criminal justice (2010s) -- Conclusion: an evolving history of violence.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Background and History -- Introduction -- The Death Penalty before It Was Capital Punishment -- How Did This History Affect Capital Punishment in the United States? -- So Why Does the Eighth Amendment Ban Cruel and Unusual Punishment? -- How Did the Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment Become Linked to the Death Penalty? -- Capital Punishment in the New Republic -- The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment Changes the Bill of Rights -- So Does Due Process "Incorporate" a Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment? -- References -- 2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions -- Introduction -- What Is the Constitutional Status of Capital Punishment? -- The Supreme Court Expands "Cruel and Unusual" to Mean "Excessive" -- The Supreme Court Bans and Restarts Capital Punishment in Furman v. Georgia (1972) and Gregg v. Georgia (1976) -- Is the Death Penalty Available for Any Crime Other Than First-Degree Murder? -- Is a Mandatory Death Penalty Ever Permissible? -- Guiding the Jury's Discretion -- Mitigation -- Age as a Mitigating Factor? Juveniles at the Supreme Court -- Juveniles and Other Crimes: Are They a Guide to Future Cases? -- Is First-Degree Murder Enough to Warrant the Death Penalty or Must There Be Aggravating Circumstances? -- What Aggravating Factors Are Permissible? -- Who Can Decide on the Death Penalty? -- What Defendants Are Incapable of Deserving the Death Penalty? -- How Can the Jury Be Selected? -- The Role of Statistics -- Victim Impact -- In the End, How Can Executions Be Carried Out? -- Life without Parole? -- Conclusion and "Last" Words -- References -- 3 Perspectives -- Introduction -- Does the Death Penalty Deter Homicide? by Rudolph J. Gerber

Despite human rights organizations' and the United Nations' calls to end the death penalty, the United States continues to use it, placing it in an unusual grouping with China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, among others. Yet, a 2018 Pew Poll reflected that most Americans still support capital punishment. This New York Times anthology includes over a century of perspectives on the subject, covering the advent of the electric chair and lethal injection, Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment's constitutionality, and today's renewed challenges to the death penalty in light of racial disparities in sentencing. Media literacy questions and terms challenge readers to further analyze reporting styles, devices, and the controversial subject of the death penalty.

Two authors interrogate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's position that the death penalty is constitutional & his invocation of God as moral authority. The first section concedes that the death penalty may well be constitutional, but points out that many religious activists oppose capital punishment as a violation of God's will. The second section argues that the death penalty is indeed unconstitutional under the "evolving standards of decency" tenet. K. Coddon

"In this newest installment in Chicago's series of Jacques Derrida's seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always overtly, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life. Haunted by this notion, he turns to the key places where such logic has been established--and to the place it has been most effectively challenged: literature. With his signature genius and patient yet dazzling readings of an impressive breadth of texts, Derrida examines everything from the Bible to Plato to Camus to Jean Genet, with special attention to Kant and post-World War II juridical texts, to draw the landscape of death penalty discourses. Keeping clearly in view the death rows and execution chambers of the United States, he shows how arguments surrounding cruel and unusual punishment depend on what he calls an 'anesthesial logic, ' which has also driven the development of death penalty technology from the French guillotine to lethal injection. Confronting a demand for philosophical rigor, he pursues provocative analyses of the shortcomings of abolitionist discourse. Above all, he argues that the death penalty and its attendant technologies are products of a desire to put an end to one of the most fundamental qualities of our finite existence: the radical uncertainty of when we will die. Arriving at a critical juncture in history--especially in the United States, one of the last Christian-inspired democracies to resist abolitio--The Death Penalty is both a timely response to an important ethical debate and a timeless addition to Derrida's esteemed body of work."--Provided by publisher.