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Author Bedau, Hugo Adam.
Title Killing as punishment : reflection on the death penalty in America / Hugo Adam Bedau.
Publication Info Boston [Mass.] : Northeastern University Press, c2004.


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Descript 241 p.
Contents Contents: 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.
ISBN 155553595X (cloth : alk. paper)
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Author Bedau, Hugo Adam.
Subject Capital punishment -- Political aspects -- United States.
Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Capital punishment -- United States.
Descript 241 p.
Contents Contents: 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.
ISBN 155553595X (cloth : alk. paper)
Author Bedau, Hugo Adam.
Subject Capital punishment -- Political aspects -- United States.
Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Capital punishment -- United States.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  HV 8699 U5 B3  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Capital punishment -- Political aspects -- United States.
Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Capital punishment -- United States.
Descript 241 p.
Contents Contents: 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.
ISBN 155553595X (cloth : alk. paper)

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