This classic brings together influential thinkers to discuss two of the most controversial issues of our time.
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Baylor University philosophy professors Baird and Rosenbaum discuss the issue of capital punishment and analyze the reasons for and against the death penalty.
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The contributors to this work focus on two basic questions: Do people have the right to punish each other? If they do, to what degree? Part 1 deals with the first question, and the responses are quite divergent but fall between two extremes: psychiatrist Karl Menninger argues that punishment "as a social institution" can't be justified; on the other hand is the position that the castigation of wrongdoers is a right, if not a duty, of society. Part 2 focuses on the death penalty as an issue in its own right and as a concrete application of many of the theoretical points raised in the first section. The conflicting opinions of Supreme Court Justices Blackmun and Scalia are also included. A thought-provoking addition to Prometheus' Contemporary Issues series. Brian McCombie
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- The Death Penalty: For and Against (Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues) by Jeffrey Reiman on 4 pages
- In Spite Of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases by Michael L. Radelet on 4 pages
- The Death Penalty in America by Hugo Adam Bedau on 4 pages
- The Death Penalty: A Debate by Ernest Van Den Haag on page 176, page 196, and Back Matter
- Capital Punishment and the American Agenda by Franklin E. Zimring in Front Matter, page 239, and Back Matter
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- Heinous Crime: Cases, Causes, and Consequences by Frederic G. Reamer on 5 pages
- Hidden Victims: The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) by Susan F. Sharp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Civil Liberties Vs. National Security in a Post 9/11 World (Prometheus's Contemporary Issues) by M. Katherine B. Darmer in Front Matter
- The Stem Cell Controversy: Debating the Issues (Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)) by Michael Ruse in Front Matter
- The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology (Contemporary Issues (Prometheus)) by Keith Parsons in Front Matter
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