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Death penalty abolitionists will find much to like about The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. Editor Hugo Adam Bedau makes his bias plain in the preface: "I ... am opposed to the death penalty in all its forms, no matter how awful the crime or how savage the criminal." Other than a token mid-1980s essay from Ernest van den Haag, then, the thrust of this collection is decidedly anti-death penalty. As such, it is a useful compendium of the abolitionist viewpoint, and its extensive bibliography will serve anyone as a starting point for research on the subject. The book also contains excerpts from important Supreme Court opinions and laws on the subject. Those of a quantitative bent will be frustrated by the argumentation and the short shrift it gives to the work of Isaac Ehrlich, who demonstrated the deterrent value of the death penalty. But those interested in an exhaustive survey of the arguments against all components of the death penalty will find this a must-have volume. --Ted Frank
From School Library Journal
YA. This third edition contains 40 new essays and statistics updated to cover the years 1972-1994. It includes a history of the death penalty, a discussion of its constitutionality, the question of racial and class disparities in death-penalty sentencing, and a discussion of it as a deterrence factor. The essays are not of overwhelming length or legal content. The statistical data is impressive; there are at least 40 tables with topics ranging from proposed state legislation over the past 25 years, to murders by type of weapon used, to length of time spent on death row by state. An extensive bibliography and an index that lists case names are helpful. The value of the factual information and the presentation of divergent opinions make this book an asset for assignments.?Clodagh Lee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Death penalty abolitionists will find much to like about The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. Editor Hugo Adam Bedau makes his bias plain in the preface: "I ... am opposed to the death penalty in all its forms, no matter how awful the crime or how savage the criminal." Other than a token mid-1980s essay from Ernest van den Haag, then, the thrust of this collection is decidedly anti-death penalty. As such, it is a useful compendium of the abolitionist viewpoint, and its extensive bibliography will serve anyone as a starting point for research on the subject. The book also contains excerpts from important Supreme Court opinions and laws on the subject. Those of a quantitative bent will be frustrated by the argumentation and the short shrift it gives to the work of Isaac Ehrlich, who demonstrated the deterrent value of the death penalty. But those interested in an exhaustive survey of the arguments against all components of the death penalty will find this a must-have volume. --Ted Frank
From School Library Journal
YA. This third edition contains 40 new essays and statistics updated to cover the years 1972-1994. It includes a history of the death penalty, a discussion of its constitutionality, the question of racial and class disparities in death-penalty sentencing, and a discussion of it as a deterrence factor. The essays are not of overwhelming length or legal content. The statistical data is impressive; there are at least 40 tables with topics ranging from proposed state legislation over the past 25 years, to murders by type of weapon used, to length of time spent on death row by state. An extensive bibliography and an index that lists case names are helpful. The value of the factual information and the presentation of divergent opinions make this book an asset for assignments.?Clodagh Lee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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