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Robert M. Baird

The Death Penalty

Debating the Moral, Legal, and Political Issues

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This collection of authoritative essays by noted professionals in law, psychology, civil rights, and journalism addresses vitally important questions at the center of the debate over capital punishment in thoughtful yet compelling ways. The heart of the book consists of edited excerpts from two recent, controversial decisions by the United States Supreme Court. In both cases, the Eighth Amendment plays a decisive role. In the first case, Baez v. Rees, the Court affirms a lower court decision that the method of capital punishment used in most states-lethal injection-does not violate the Eighth Amendment. In the second case, Kennedy v. Louisian… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Rosenbaum, Stuart E.
  • ISBN: 978-1-59102-760-7
  • EAN: 9781591027607
  • Produktnummer: 5417885
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 379 S.

Über den Autor


Robert M. Baird (Waco, TX) is a professor and the former chair of the philosophy department at Baylor University. He is editor with Stuart E. Rosenbaum of Prometheus's Contemporary Issues series.Stuart E. Rosenbaum (Waco, TX) is a professor of philosophy at Baylor University. He is editor with Robert M. Baird of Prometheus's Contemporary Issues series, and is the editor of Pragmatism and Religion.

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