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  1. Capital Punishment: Global Issues And Prospects (Criminal Policy) by Peter Hodgkinson, Andrew Rutherford, 1996-01
  2. Capital Punishment (Social Issues Firsthand)
  3. Capital Punishment (Troubled Society) by Scott Robert Hays, 1990-10
  4. Capital Punishment Revisited by Shelton L. Smith, 2000-08
  5. In the Shadow of the Gallows: Capital Punishment in Prince Edward Island, 1769-1941 (The Island Studies Series) by Jim Hornby, 1998-01-01
  6. Death in the Balance: The Debate over Capital Punishment by Donald D. Hook, Lothar Kahn, 1990-09
  7. Capital Punishment: Issues and Perspectives by A. V. Mandel, 2003-04
  8. Capital Punishment: A Faith-Based Study by Judith F. Bennett, 2002-09
  9. Watching Death: Capital Punishment in America by V. Wayne Sorge, 2005-02-07
  10. Clarence Darrow on Capital Punishment by Justice S. Simon, Federal Writers' Project, 1991-11
  11. Capital Punishment (Critical Approaches to Law) by Ada Thurschwell, 2008-02-28
  12. The International Sourcebook On Capital Punishment, 1997 Edition (International Sourcebook on Capital Punishment) by Michael L. Radelet, Andrew Rutherford, 1997-04-17
  13. Capital Punishment In Canada (The Carleton library ; no. 94) by D. Chandler, 1976-01-15
  14. DEAD CERTAIN.(capital punishment)(Brief Article): An article from: Sojourners by Danny Duncan Collum, 2000-07-01

61. UT Library Online - General Libraries News - Capital Punishment Highlighted In B
general Libraries News. printable (pdf) version. capital punishment in MexicanHistory highlighted in Benson Latin American Collection exhibit.
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Capital Punishment in Mexican History highlighted in Benson Latin American Collection exhibit
, Five Centuries of Capital Punishment in Mexico" opens to the public at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection on Wednesday, April 14, 9:00 to 10:45 a.m., in the Rare Books Reading Room, SRH 1.101. The exhibit's inauguration accompanies a binational symposium analyzing how the death penalty has affected Mexican history, its constitution and the bilateral relationship between Texas and Mexico. The exhibit and the symposium, sponsored by the Mexican Center of the University of Texas at Austin, sheds light on how Mexicans have sought to impose or withhold death as punishment. Patrick Timmons, co-curator and doctoral student in history, will explain the research materials drawn from the Benson Latin American Collection in the meeting's opening session.

62. Death Row
and based on that precedential decision, the Colorado general Assembly revised the tobe executed by the current method of capital punishment, lethal injection
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Capital Punishment In
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The following information is provided by the Office of Public Affairs. Capital Punishment History Current Death Row Roster Location of Death Row and Execution Room Security ... State Archives
History of Capital Punishment in Colorado
The first person to be executed by the State of Colorado was convicted murderer Noverto Griego in 1890. Executions were performed by hanging until 1933, after which capital punishment was administered by the gas chamber until 1967. A total of 77 executions were performed between 1890 and 1967. Subsequently thereto, the death penalty was declared unconstitutional in 1972 by the United States Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia . That case was overturned by the Supreme Court in the case of Gregg v. Georgia in 1976, and based on that precedential decision, the Colorado General Assembly revised the statutes to reinstate the death penalty for capital crimes in 1984. On October 13, 1997, 53-year-old Gary Lee Davis was the state’s first execution in 30 years and the first to be executed by the current method of capital punishment, lethal injection. Back to top Current Death Row Roster The State of Colorado currently has the following inmates on death row: Edward Montour
DOC# 98921 Convicted in 2003 for the murder of a Correctional Officer

63. Capital Punishment
to investigate. capital punishment. A general bill to abolish thedeath penalty entirely, HB88, has been filed by Rep. Tom Burch
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64. MEN AND WOMEN: THEIR OPINION ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
nonsignificant results that I received could be that the people that I surveyedstrongly agreed or disagreed with the idea of capital punishment in general.
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MEN AND WOMEN: THEIR OPINION ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
KASSANDRA J. STARR
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
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Sponsored by BRIAN CRONK( cronk@mwsc.edu
ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION In a study done by Valliant and Oliver, age was a significant factor in the study of whether or not the death penalty should be used or not, the younger the subject was the harsher their attitude was (Oliver, 1997). The purpose of my study was to find out whether or not men or women are more likely to sentence a woman or a man to the death penalty. I wanted to know if men were more lenient with women because they are female or if they were not going to be sympathetic to them at all. I also wanted to know if there was going a difference between the men and women in general on their views of the death sentence. The independent variable in this experiment was going the survey with the two scenarios used to determine whether or not they are in favor of capital punishment. The dependent variable was whether or not they have a significant opinion on the death penalty or not. METHODS PARTICIPANTS
The participants in this study were randomly assigned from General and Intermediate Psychology courses at Missouri Western State College. There were 20 males and 20 females that participated in the study. The average age of the participants was 20.7 years old, and the ages ranged from 18 to 47 years of age.

65. Capital Punishment In Ohio
In 1974, the Ohio general Assembly revised Ohio’s Death Penalty law the death sentence,Ohio lawmakers enacted the current capital punishment statute, which
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Select a Destination.... Home Director News Organization Institutions Community Corrections Office of Offender Reentry Contacts Site Search Offender Search Capital Punishment in Ohio Careers in Corrections Prisoner Community Service Ohio Penal Industries Doing Business With Us Victim Services Forms Community Justice Publications Facts and Figures Most Wanted Frequently Asked Questions Corrections Links Current Death Row Inmates Executed Inmates 1897 to Present Capital punishment has been a part of Ohio’s justice system since early in the state’s history. From 1803, when Ohio became a state, until 1885, executions were carried out by public hanging in the county where the crime was committed. In 1885, the legislature enacted a law that required executions to be carried out at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. The first person to be executed at the Ohio Penitentiary was Valentine Wagner, age 56. Wagner, from Morrow County, was hanged for the murder of Daniel Shehan from Mt. Gilead. Twenty-eight convicted murderers were hanged at the penitentiary. In 1897, the electric chair, considered to be a more technologically advanced and humane form of execution, replaced the gallows. The first prisoner to be executed by electrocution was William Haas, a 17-year-old boy from Hamilton County, for the murder of Mrs. William Brady. The last person to be executed by electrocution in Ohio was Donald Reinbolt, a 29-year-old inmate from Franklin County, for the murder of Edgar L. Weaver, a Columbus grocer. He was executed on March 15, 1963. From 1897 to 1963 there were 315 persons put to death in the electric chair including three women.

66. Capital Punishment
like to live on death row, and the entire issue of capital punishment in Oregon Oregon sdeath row inmates are segregated from the general population, with one
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Capital Punishment in Oregon
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Oregon reinstated capital punishment in 1984, but the state's first execution in 34 years did not occur until September 6, 1996. At 12:16 a.m., Douglas Franklin Wright died by lethal injection in the execution room at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. That event focused an enormous amount of interest, curiosity and attention on the Department of Corrections and how executions are conducted, what its like to live on death row, and the entire issue of capital punishment in Oregon. Life on Death Row Once a male offender is convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to die, he is sent directly to Oregon State Penitentiary. Although no women are sentenced to death in Oregon, their treatment would be comparable. They would be housed, however, at Oregon Women's Correctional Center until shortly before the execution is scheduled to occur. Oregon's death row inmates are segregated from the general population, with one inmate to a cell. All death row inmates are classified as maximum custody. Inmates on death row are permitted the same personal property in their cells as are inmates in general population, with the exception of those items that pose a threat to safety or security. For example, no metal items or glass containers may be kept in cells. Items inmates may purchase include televisions and radios (both to be used with headphones). Inmates may purchase items from the canteen (prison store) once per week.

67. John W. Lamperti | Capital Punishment
consistent pattern of non deterrence. Although they find agreement that the overall(general) homicide rate is not responsive to capital punishment, they do
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Does Capital Punishment
Deter Murder?
A brief look at the evidence
by John Lamperti
In light of the massive amount of evidence before us, I see no alternative but to conclude that capital punishment cannot be justified on the basis of its deterrent effect. Furman v. Georgia, Contrary to the views of some social theorists, I am convinced that the death penalty can be an effective deterrent against specific crimes. Picture Goes Here Ethical, philosophical and religious values are central to the continuing controversy over capital punishment. Nevertheless, factual evidence can and should inform policy making. The evidence for capital punishment as an uniquely effective deterrent to murder is especially important, since deterrence is the only major pragmatic argument on the pro-death penalty side. The purpose of this paper is to survey and evaluate the evidence for deterrence. We must define the question correctly. We are not asking whether the threat of punishment, in general, deters crime, nor whether there should be heavy penalties for murder. The issue at stake is this: Does capital punishment, in a form which has been or might be practiced in the United States, provide a

68. General Assembly Third Committee, Social, Cultural, & Humanitarian
they all present a similar sanctity of life argument opposing capital punishment. Commissionon Human Rights (UNCHR), the United Nations general Assembly (UNGA
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SOCOMUN 2003 Freshman Committee # 4 Capital Punishment Introduction: Hello! My name is Jaime Melton and I am a senior at Santa Margarita High School. This is my fourth year in the Model United Nations Program. I hope that you will learn a lot at this conference and still have fun. Here is the topic synopsis for the issue that we will be debating in committee. If you have any questions regarding the topic, and/or conference please feel free to email me at Haimeee@yahoo.com
Background
Capital Punishment has been used since the earliest recorded days of history as a method of crime punishment and prevention. However, the international community has only viewed it as a problem within the last half century. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, began to fall subject to skepticism in the 1960’s. The reason for this skepticism was twofold. First, the death penalty was being used by numerous states around the world not just as a means of crime prevention and punishment but as a means of intimidation and advancing political ambition. With an international community looking on for the first times due to the modern inventions of media, people began to notice and take heed of such abuses.

69. Ashcroft Preaches Love And Capital Punishment
Addressing a news conference, Attorney general J. Joseph Curran Jr. said Capitalpunishment comes only at the intolerable risk of killing an innocent person.
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E-Mail This Article Published on Saturday, February 8, 2003 by the Boulder Daily Camera Ashcroft Preaches Love and Capital Punishment by Christopher Brauchli From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
Addressing a crowd of 3,000 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Denver, John Ashcroft, attorney general of the United States, talked not about law but about love. He said, among other things, that "When a need is expressed, you don't have to be the proverbial rocket scientist, a theoretical mathematician. You don't have to be a Ph.D. You just have to be a person whose spirit responds to the need and says, 'I will.'" Commenting on the need for individuals to love one another he said: "While government programs provide for entitlements, when one citizen reaches for another, or one organization, or a group of citizens, does so based on an overwhelming conviction within them that we are one, it says something more than 'You are entitled.' It says 'I love you' and 'I love you' is something that needs to be said more frequently in our culture." It's nice that Mr. Ashcroft wants people to say that they love each other. It's really quite easy. It is, after all, only three words. That does not necessarily imply compassion, yet another quality some (though not Mr. Ashcroft) associate with love. He has once again shown the world that you can love people while working to make sure ones you love less are killed.

70. Capital Punishment
Helen Prejean capital punishment United States Religious aspects Moral andreligious aspects Politics Current Events True Crime Murder - general
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71. Circle Of Prayer - Capital Punishment
purposes of criminal punishment in general Rehabilitation. punishment should tryto restore the right summarized four objections to capital punishment in our
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E-mail this link to a friend by entering their e-mail address below: The death penalty diminishes us as human beings. We recall the words of the poet who explained that "No man is an island, entire of itself" and that therefore "any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." How much more so are we diminished when a man is killed on our behalf.

72. CBS News | Capital Punishment Reforms Urged | April 15, 2002 14:24:07
Penalty Information Center in Washington, DC, which researches capital punishmentbut takes might get a cooler reception in the Illinois general Assembly than
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The panel's report contains 85 recommendations, ranging from videotaping all interrogations of suspects in capital cases to establishing a statewide commission that would determine whether local prosecutors can seek the death penalty.
(CBS)
A panel formed to revamp Illinois' death penalty has recommended dozens of changes - including drastically reducing the number of circumstances warranting execution - but a majority of panelists doubt the system can be fixed.
The recommendations came more than two years after Gov. George Ryan suspended executions in the state after investigations that found several prisoners scheduled for execution were innocent a scenario that death penalty opponents say is not unique to Illinois.
In all, 38 states have death laws on their books but the American Bar Association has called for a moratorium on executions nationally and opponents have grown more vocal.
Illinois reinstated the death penalty in 1977 and carried out 12 executions before Ryan imposed the moratorium. At the time he noted that 13 death row inmates had been exonerated.

73. Column: Capital Punishment For Corporations?
in effect imposing capital punishment on these unnatural persons. That proposal hasbegun to find an audience. In April, New York Attorney general Dennis Vacco
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Capital Punishment for Corporations?
by David Morris
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
September 22, 1998 No one should be above the law, our politicians insist. If the President is lying, he should be stripped of office. Drug users should be stripped of their possessions and their livelihoods. Murderers should suffer the ultimate punishment-death. Only one entity is exempted from this firm principle that criminals should be punished for their criminal behavior: the corporation. It is an odd exception. After all, corporations can wield power and wreak damage a million times greater than can an individual. Yet today a corporation found guilty of the most heinous crime usually pleads nolo contendere, which means it admits no guilt, pays a trivial fine and promises not to commit the crime again. If only the President could incorporate himself, he'd be home free. Corporations were not always treated so indulgently. When the corporate form was invented in the 18th century, its proponents realized they had created a potential monster. The introduction of limited liability meant owners were no longer responsible for the actions of their businesses. This posed a dilemma. For as Edward, Lord Chancellor of England said at the time, "Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked?" Jonathan Rowe, writing in the Washington Monthly, observes, "Individual responsibility is a bedrock principle of the common law tradition. People must stand accountable for their actions and those taken on their behalf. To compromise this principle, something had to be given in return; specifically the enterprise that gained this exemption had to serve the public in concrete ways."

74. Capital Punishment: A Pollak Library Research Guide
here SUBJECT capital punishment KEYWORD death penalty. ARTICLES top. 1500journals and magazines, general and scholarly sources. Opposing
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A Guide To Resources In CSUF's Pollak Library top Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States CATALOG RECORD
REFERENCE HV8694 .P35 2001 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice CATALOG RECORD
REFERENCE HV6017 .E52 2002 Vol. 1-4 Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment CATALOG RECORD
REFERENCE HV6017 .E524 2002 American Attitudes [in INDEX , see DEATH PENALTY CATALOG RECORD
REFERENCE HN90.P8 M58 1998 American Justice CATALOG RECORD
REFERENCE KF154 .A44 1996 Vol. 1-3 American Law Yearbook 1998 CATALOG RECORD
REFERENCE KF154 .W472 1998 Capital Punishment: A Reference Handbook CATALOG RECORD
REFERENCE HV8699.U5 K76 1993 Congressional Quarterly's Desk Reference on American Criminal Justice CATALOG RECORD
REFERENCE HV9950 .B364 2001 Dictionary of American Criminal Justice: Key Terms and Major Supreme Court Cases CATALOG RECORD REFERENCE HV7411 .C53 1998

75. Commentary Magazine - For Capital Punishment, By Walter Berns
..It is plausible to think that the rising sentiment in favor of capital punishmentis linked to a general shift toward greater conservatism in society
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IN THE case of this book, the title and subtitle give, for once, an accurate idea of the contents. The book is a frank plea in favor of capital punishment. The argument places the issue in the... ...This, to be sure, is a sentiment... ...Walter Berns (a professor of political science at the University of Toronto) writes clearly, economically, and at times PETER L. BERGER is the author of many books, including Pyramids of Sacrifice, Facing Up to Modernity, and, most recently, The Heretical Imperative (Doubleday... ...To be opposed to capital punishment need not be the same as holding a "soft" position on other issues of the law or being some sort of pacifist... ...A society that cannot condemn cannot praise, and by this double inability it proclaims that it does not believe its own alleged values... ...It is a scheduled killing, for which the victim must wait in one of the most terrible experiences of time possible to a human being... ...Thus, even today, there continues to be a correlation between the abolitionist position and the view that the purpose of criminal law is rehabilitation rather than punishment...

76. Libraries: Capital Punishment Resources: A Library Research Guide
issues related to capital punishment, sometimes an encyclopedia can help with theprocess. The College of Wooster Libraries has many general and specialized
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Sources for Background Information on the Capital Punishment
If you're looking for an overview of or background on the issues related to Capital Punishment, sometimes an encyclopedia can help with the process. The College of Wooster Libraries has many general and specialized subject encyclopedias that could be of help with this process. Below is a list of a few encyclopedias with some background on Capital Punishment.
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are found shelved together (e.g., Academic American Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Americana Encyclopaedia Britannica World Book Encyclopedia WOO Reference AE section General encyclopedias on the Web:
(e.g., Encyclopedia Britannica at Britannica.com Columbia Encyclopedia WEB RESOURCE: WOOInfo / Libraries / Library Resources / Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Subject encyclopedias in print: Criminal justice encyclopedias:
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77. 1995/57. Capital Punishment
Having considered the fifth quinquennial report of the Secretarygeneral on capitalpunishment and the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing the
http://www.un.org/documents/ecosoc/res/1995/eres1995-57.htm
United Nations Resolution 1995/57

Economic and Social Council
57th plenary meeting
28 July 1995 1995/57. Capital punishment The Economic and Social Council, Recalling General Assembly resolutions 2857 (XXVI) of 20 December 1971, 32/61 of 8 December 1977, 39/118 of 14 December 1984 and 44/128 of 15 December 1989, Recalling its resolutions 1745 (LIV) of 16 May 1973, 1930 (LVIII) of 6 May 1975, 1984/50 of 25 May 1984 and 1990/51 of 24 July 1990, Having considered the fifth quinquennial report of the Secretary-General on capital punishment and the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty, 1/ submitted to it in pursuance of its resolution 1990/51 and its decision 1994/206 of 3 February 1994, Conscious of the fact that only 63 Governments replied to the questionnaire which the Secretary-General sent to them asking them to provide the information required for the preparation of the fifth quinquennial report, 1. Invites Member States to reply to the questionnaire which the Secretary-General will send them with a view to the preparation of the sixth quinquennial report in the year 2000, providing him with the information requested;

78. People For The American Way | Capital Punishment
capital punishment. The plan, originally proposed during Janet Reno s tenure as attorneygeneral and finalized under Ashcroft, was put on hold in August.74 In
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79. Kant On Capital Punishment
The point here is that by stealing, criminals make property insecure in general. Whenwe come to the particular case of capital punishment, we see that Kant
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Kant on Capital Punishment Kant offers perhaps the purest (though not necessarily the clearest) statement of the retributive theory of punishment. The idea in brief is simple: it is wrong to punish people for utilitarian reasons. Legal punishment must always be a response to guilt. If the core motive in punishing someone is to deter others, or to protect society, or to set an example, then the person punished is wronged; their humanity has not been respected. So punishment must always be in response to guilt, but Kant in effect goes further: the suggestion that seems to come through this reading is not only that guilt is a necessary condition for punishment, but that the guilty must be punished or else justice and equality, the only proper foundations for the law, will not have been served. Equality is the principle that must be used in selecting a punishment. Kant uses a metaphor. He refers to the principle of equality as the one by which the pointer of the scale of justice is made to incline no more to one side than to the other. There are two ideas involved in Kant's explanation of this. One is the familiar idea of "an eye for an eye." The evil that a wrongdoer inflicts is the measure of how severely s/he should be punished. Kant points out: we do not need to require that people who are assaulted should be assaulted, for example. What is required is that the pain inflicted on the criminal should be equivalent to the pain inflicted on the victim. That is one part of the

80. Capital Punishment
The PHRMG points out the dangers of sentencing people to capital punishment in general,and the execution of the punishment in particular, for the following
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The bi-monthly publication of the PHRMG: Capital Punishment: During 1998, four detainees were sentenced to death. What distinguishes this year from others is that the death penalty was executed against two detainees out of four, by an order from Yasser Arafat. On 30 August 1998, Muhammad Kamal Abu Sultan (28, married and father to one child, from Jabalia – Gaza, working for the MI) and Ra’ed Kamal Abu Sultan (24, single, from Jabalia, working for the border forces) were gunned down at the Palestinian Police headquarters in Gaza. On 29 August 1998, the Military Court in Gaza sentenced the two brothers, together with their third brother Faris (30, married and father to 3 children, from al-Nusseirat refugee camp, working for the GI), to death for the murder of two brothers from al-Khaldi family: Muhammad Ibrahim Ribah al-Khaldi and Majdi Ibrahim Ribah al-Khaldi. Muhammad al-Khaldi worked in the Political Direction. His brother Majdi worked for the GI.

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