Capital Punishment

Name: Capital Punishment
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Presents an analyses of the nature of capital punishment and provides perspectives on the larger issues of our approach to law-breakers and their rehabilitation. This title includes the claims of both those who want to retain capital punishment and those who want to abolish it. > Numerous people face legal execution in the United States. Their presence in death rows throughout the country refutes a basic premise of our judicial system, for the use of capital punishment denies the existence of universal rehabilitation. There is another paradox-juries continue to sentence men and women to death; yet few ever get executed. Whether one is for or against capital punishment, one cannot approach the issue without deep emotion and conviction. James McCafferty provides an even-tempered, eminently reasonable discussion of the issue with balanced commentary from both sides of the debate. McCafferty presents not only empirical data and analyses of the nature of capital punishment, but providex