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1.801 documents for deterrence and the death penalty

- No, capital punishment is not morally required: deterrence, deontology, and the death penalty.
INTRODUCTION I. PRIVATE MURDERS ARE NOT EQUIVALENT TO EXECUTIONS AS A MORAL MATTER: NONPURPOSEFUL VERSUS PURPOSEFUL KILLINGS II. PRIVATE MURDERS ARE N...
- Stanford Law Review
- Vol. 58 Nbr. 3, December 2005
- Deterrence and the death penalty: the views of the experts.
Expert evidence from the top US criminologists concludes that capital punishment fails to deter violent crime, and they do not agree with public justifications for its use. Some of these experts even feel that capital punishment tends to devalue human life and sends Americans the message that killing is in some circumstances appropriate. Politicians should pay more attention to experts when they develop criminal justice policy as this might move it beyond simplistic debates of "getting tough on crime.
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Vol. 87 Nbr. 1, September 1996
- A 'commonsense' theory of deterrence and the 'ideology' of science: the New York state death penalty debate.
Capital punishment is one of the most contentious public policy debates in the United States. While surviving since colonial times, (1) the debate has...
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Nbr. 2001, September 2001

- Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002)
... Arizona law, Ring could not be sentenced to death, the statutory maximum penalty for first-degree mu...Studies of deterrence are, at most, inconclusive. See, e. g., Sorense...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Executing those who do not kill: a categorical approach to proportional sentencing.
... Court has examined the proportionality of a death sentence for the crimes of murder and rape. It hass also examined the penalty in light of specific categories of defendants, inc... Intent Requirement of Retribution and Deterrence CONCLUSION APPENDIX INTRODUCTION . On August 14, 1...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 48 Nbr. 3, June 2011
- Eighth Amendment: Further Guarantees In Criminal Cases
... practice, and current writings on the death penalty. Relying on the Fourteenth Amendment's Du... functions of retribution and deterrence, the judgments of the state legislatures are that ...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Marginal deterrence and multiple murders.
********** . One must calculate a penalty in terms not of the crime, but of its possible rep... that are now punishable by a less costly death penalty. . 2. Murder and Marginal Deterrence: A Br...
- Southern Economic Journal
- Vol. 72 Nbr. 3, January 2006
- Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. (2008)
...He was convicted and sentenced to death under a state statute authorizing capital punishme...584, which barred the use of the death penalty as punishment for the rape of an adult woman but l... for the death penalty, retribution and deterrence, see, e.g., Gregg v. Georgia , 428 U. S. 153, 1...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Deciding whether the death penalty should be abolished Voices of the Death Penalty Debate: a citizen's guide to capital punishment.
... for the death penalty-"retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation" (43) --are all...
- Suffolk University Law Review
- Vol. 43 Nbr. 4, January 2011
- Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002)
... crimes by a Virginia jury and sentenced to death. Mfirming, the Virginia Supreme Court relied on P... of these deficiencies, the Court's death penalty jurisprudence provides two reasons to agree with t... the death penalty-retribution and deterrence of capital crimes-applies to mentally retarded off...
- U.S. Supreme Court