Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital PunishmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of Evidence
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital PunishmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of Evidence, Taken Before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment in 1929-1930, Together with Appendices and Index
Author: Großbritannien Select Committee on Capital PunishmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of Evidence, Taken Before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment in 1929-1930, Together with Appendices and Index
Author: Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital PunishmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment Together with the Proceedings of the Committee
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
Report
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital PunishmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
Capital Punishment
Author: C. CliffPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590335314
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The issue of capital punishment is a continually-debated issue because it calls into question the values and direction of society. How is a civilisation supposed to handle lawbreakers? Are some crimes so heinous and some people so dangerous that the death penalty is the only appropriate response? The United States Constitution prohibits 'cruel and unusual punishment', but opinions on whether that includes capital punishment are vehement on both sides. Many states have some form of death penalty, and public opinion seems to indicate support of it in principle. However, many firestorms have erupted recently over the application of the penalty, including the topics of its use on minors and those with mental disabilities. There are also questions raised about how much of a factor race plays in a capital sentence. Internationally, several countries have foresworn the death penalty, with certain countries in Europe and the Americas refusing to extradite criminal suspects (including suspected terrorists) to the US if capital punishment is a possible sentence. With such politically flammable and ethically challenging issues hanging over it, capital punishment is a vitally important issue to understand. To help facilitate that study, this book assembles a carefully selected and substantial listing of literature focussing on the death penalty. Anyone researching this area of criminal justice will find this book an important tool as it offers easy access to the most relevant works about capital punishment. Following the bibliography, further access is provided with author, title, and subject indexes.
Capital Punishment in Independent Ireland
Author: David M. DoylePublisher:
ISBN: 1789620279
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this book sheds light on the various social, legal and political contexts in which the death penalty operated and was discussed. In Ireland the death penalty served a dual function: as an instrument of punishment in the civilian criminal justice system, and as a weapon to combat periodic threats to the security of the state posed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Through close examination of cases dealt with in the ordinary criminal courts, this study elucidates ideas of class, gender, community and sanity and explores their impact on the administration of justice. The application of the death penalty also had a strong political dimension, most evident in the enactment of emergency legislation and the setting up of military courts specifically aimed at the IRA. As the book demonstrates, the civilian and the political strands converged in the story of the abolition of the death penalty in Ireland. Long after decision-makers accepted that the death penalty was no longer an acceptable punishment for 'ordinary' cases of murder, lingering anxieties about the threat of subversives dictated the pace of abolition and the scope of the relevant legislation.
Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment
Author: Grande-Bretagne. House of Commons. Select committee on capital punishmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description