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Killing as Punishment: Reflections on the Death Penalty in America
 
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Killing as Punishment: Reflections on the Death Penalty in America [Hardcover]

Hugo Adam Bedau (Author)

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155553595X 978-1555535957 March 11, 2004
One of the most respected (and ardent) opponents of the death penalty collects his highly acclaimed essays on capital punishment.

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"As with any of Hugo Adam Bedau's works, Killing as Punishment is extremely well written and thought provoking." --Criminal Justice Review

"Hugo Bedau . . . has written widely on the death penalty. The first five chapters of his book "explore in detail a variety of factual issues raised by the death penalty," . . . The last four chapters are concerned with constitutional and ethical issues. Here the author argues that the Supreme Court's arguments are not conclusive; many moral arguments used by opponents of the death penalty are less conclusive than their users believe; and there are reasons favoring the abolition of the death penalty even for the worst murders."--Theology Digest

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Hugo Adam Bedau is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tufts University, and the author of Death is Different: Studies in the Morality, Law, and Politics of Capital Punishment and coauthor (with Michael L. Radelet and Constance E. Putnam) of In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases, both published by Northeastern University Press.

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