capital punishment

A collection of essays in which inmates at American prisons who were sentenced to death while still in their teens share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up in prison and how they feel about capital punishment.

Examines the legal, political, and philosophical arguments for and against capital punishment, and explores how the use and abolishment of capital punishment has evolved worldwide throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Examines the intersection of life, death, and the American legal system, exploring how the legal system in many cases decides who lives or dies. More broadly, the author employs moral, philosophical, cultural, and religious lenses to show how the government plays a role in who is killed and who lives in wars, executions, deadly force authorization, legalizing or making abortion illegal, and allowing or denying asylum for refugees. Notes the difference between a legal "right" versus a human interest, and argues that laws that decide whether someone lives or dies should honor the irreversibility of death.

Introduces learning readers to the Eighth Amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights, covering its guarantee that citizens will not undergo cruel and unusual punishment for crimes they might commit. Includes photographs, illustrations, and a glossary.

Explores the fundamental questions surrounding capital punishment.

Introduces issues related to the death penalty and examines the pros and cons of the debate.

Contains sixteen essays that debate the issues surrounding the death penalty in the United States.

The author looks at the controversial topic of the death penalty and argues against it.

An exploration of controversies related to the death penalty that discusses the origins of the sentence and provides varying perspectives on how execution affects crime rate, the legal process' influence over the death penalty's deterrence effect, and the effectiveness of the punishment.

Contains essays that provide a variety of perspectives on questions of whether the death penalty should be legal, whether capital punishment is just, and if it is applied fairly.