Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Annotated Bibliography

Capital punishment. (2012) Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/93902/capital-punishment

The article in the encyclopedia provides a complete background of the topic under consideration. Moral, utilitarian and practical arguments are described in detail with the significant movement for banning of the death penalty in US. The current situation all over the world is also discussed in this encyclopedia article.

Bedau Hugo Adam, (1998). The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. Oxford University Press

Hugo is one of the leading researchers on the subject of capital punishment. In this book, he presents a wide-ranging and all- inclusive book of facts on the capital punishment, making the procedure of knowledgeable contemplation not only feasible but captivating too. Admired as the most comprehensive, chiseled and well-defined compilation of readings on the advantages and disadvantages of the death penalty, by the New York Times, it provides well researched details and statistics on death penalty with related Supreme court decisions and the preeminent debates over capital punishment. It encompasses nearly all the concern topics: the status of the capital punishment around the globe; how the convicted killers are outlook in the society; both the arguments in favor and against the death penalty that include both the legal disagreements challenging the U.S. Constitution against it and moral debates soliciting the New Testament in favor of it; proposals to broadcast death penalties and contestations on the race and class role in the judicial system.

I would like this book as a future reference as it explores all the most gripping and undeniable features of this most argumentative issue.

Robinson Matthew, (2011). Is Capital Punishment Just? Assessing the Death Penalty Using Justice Theory. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology Vol. 3(2):27-66

This article discusses the realisms of capital punishment practice in the United States deploying both descriptive empirical data and the current studies ...