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E-raamat: Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

(University at Albany, USA)
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The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather than answering them, Questioning Capital Punishment offers the footing needed to allow for more informed consideration and analysis of these controversies. Acker edits judicial decisions that have addressed constitutional challenges to capital punishment and its administration in the United States and uses complementary materials to offer historical, empirical, and normative perspectives about death penalty policies and practices. This book is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes in criminal justice.

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
I THE DEATH PENALTY'S JUSTIFICATIONS: PRO AND CON
1(96)
1 Retribution (Just Deserts)
3(28)
The Death Penalty as Retributive Justice: A Case in Point?
3(3)
Retribution and Capital Punishment
6(12)
Retributive Justice and the Principle of Proportionality
6(1)
Is Capital Punishment Retributive Justice?
7(6)
Objections to a Retributive Justification for the Death Penalty
13(5)
The Worst of the Worst
18(7)
Conclusion
25(6)
2 Deterrence
31(30)
Introduction
31(1)
Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Law, Assumptions, and Logic
32(12)
The Constitutional Perspective
32(7)
The Logic (or Illogic) of Capital Punishment as a General Deterrent
39(5)
Might the Death Penalty Have a Brutalizing Effect?
44(2)
The Death Penalty, Deterrence, and Brutalization: What Does the Research Evidence Suggest?
46(6)
A Note on the Burden of Persuasion and Related Policy Issues
52(3)
Conclusion
55(6)
3 Incapacitation, Cost, and Consideration for Victims
61(36)
Introduction
61(1)
Incapacitation
61(16)
Cost
77(5)
Murder Victims and Their Survivors
82(7)
Conclusion
89(8)
II DECIDING WHO DIES: LAW AND PRACTICE
97(168)
4 Capital Punishment for Murder: Sentencing Criteria and Procedures
99(50)
Introduction
99(1)
Capital Sentencing Decisions: From Early Statehood to Furman v. Georgia
100(7)
The 1976 Decisions and the Dawning of the Modern Era of Capital Punishment
107(16)
Beyond the 1976 Decisions: Doctrinal Refinements and Tensions
123(18)
Nonarbitrariness and Individualization: Considering Mitigation Evidence
123(12)
Aggravating Factors: Form and Function
135(6)
Conclusion
141(8)
5 Proportionality: Offenses and Offenders
149(48)
Introduction
149(1)
Crimes Punishable by Death
149(23)
Capital Punishment for Rape
150(15)
The Death Penalty for (the "Non-Trigger Person" in) Felony Murder
165(7)
Offenders Punishable by Death
172(20)
Juveniles
173(10)
Intellectually Disabled (Mentally Retarded) Offenders
183(8)
A Note About Severely Mentally III Offenders
191(1)
Conclusion
192(5)
6 The New Death-Penalty Laws in Application: Race Discrimination and Arbitrariness
197(28)
Introduction
197(1)
Race Discrimination
197(17)
Arbitrariness: Gender and Geography
214(3)
Gender Disparities
214(1)
Geographic Disparities
215(2)
Conclusion
217(8)
7 Defense Attorneys and Capital Jurors
225(40)
Introduction
225(1)
Capital Defense Attorneys
225(15)
The Capital Jury
240(18)
Conclusion
258(7)
III POST-CONVICTION
265(96)
8 Capital Errors: Procedural Issues and Actual Innocence
267(46)
Introduction
267(1)
Procedural Error
268(5)
Innocence
273(33)
Conclusion
306(7)
9 The Final Stages: Death Row, Clemency, and Execution
313(48)
Introduction
313(1)
Life Under Sentence of Death
313(21)
Death Row Confinement
313(10)
Competency for Execution
323(11)
Executive Clemency
334(4)
Execution
338(14)
Conclusion
352(9)
Bibliography 361(28)
Index 389
James R. Acker is a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany. He received his JD at Duke University and his PhD in criminal justice at the University at Albany. He has edited several books and authored numerous scholarly articles that focus on legal and empirical aspects of capital punishment. In 2005, Acker helped establish the National Death Penalty Archive at the University at Albany, a repository that houses one of the largest and most significant collections of historical materials relating to the death penalty in the United States. His other academic interests include the integration of social science into law, legal doctrine relating to criminal procedure, criminal law, and juvenile justice, and issues pertaining to miscarriages of justice.
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