Scholarly Articles on the Death Penalty: History & Journal Articles
The abolitionist movement to end capital punishment also influenced state legislatures. By the early 1900s, most states had adopted laws that allowed juries to apply either the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison. Executions in the United States peaked during the 1930s at an average rate of 167 per year.
(PDF) The Death Penalty
ABSTRACT. Capital punishment, also known as death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice. whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Since at. present 58 ...
Understanding Death Penalty Support and Opposition Among Criminal
Numerous opinion polls have revealed that a majority of Americans have supported the death penalty for more than 40 years. However, the results from a 2013 Gallup poll revealed the lowest support for the death penalty since 1972 (Jones, 2013).Furthermore, as discussed in the literature review, a body of evidence from research has begun to develop over the past 40 years, which has provided ...
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the
The death penalty, for most of history a commonplace part of political culture, has clearly been in decline in recent decades. There are fewer executions and death sentences globally, and fewer countries have the death penalty in their statutes; as the most authoritative global survey describes, since the early 1990s "there has been a revolution in the discourse on and practice of capital ...
The death penalty: a breach of human rights and ethics of care
"The death penalty is, in our common experience, an atavistic relic from the past that should be shed in the 21st century", said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk in April, 2023, during the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council. The death penalty has existed since the Code of Hammurabi, with its history seeped in politics and discrimination. Physicians have been ...
Attitudes towards the death penalty: An assessment of individual and
In this paper, we draw on a dataset of 135,000 people from across 81 nations to examine differences in death penalty support. ... There is mixed evidence about the role of religious values in shaping death penalty support. Some research finds that religious people tend to have lower levels of support for the death penalty and similar punitive ...
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States
This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it? Second, how should we understand the role of race in shaping the distinctive path of capital punishment in the United States, given our ...
PDF The death penalty: a breach of human rights and ethics of care
The death penalty is inhumane and violates the fundamental right to life. Physician involvement enables this continuing abuse of human rights and undermines the four pillars of medical ethics—beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice. Universal condemnation of the death penalty, by physicians and medical associations alike, is an ...
Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
Donohue, John and Justin J. Wolfers. "The Death Penalty: No Evidence For Deterrence," The Economists' Voice, 2006, v3 (5,Apr), Article 3. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and ...
Abolishing the Death Penalty Worldwide: The Impact of a "New ...
I. Introduction and a Road Map On January 1, 2008, Uzbekistan became the ninety-second country to have abolished the death penalty for all criminal offenses, whether committed in wartime or peacetime or under civil or military criminal codes. In addition, 10 other nations had already abolished it for all.
History and Experience of the Death Penalty: Is It a Violation ...
This paper argues that, under the spirit of Jefferson's Declaration, the death penalty is a blatant violation of human rights, regardless the crime. It is a denial of the most basic human right of life (Center for Constitutional Rights). This paper proceeds in three parts. Section I provides context by discussing the history of the death penalty.
PDF Public Opinion and the Death Penalty: A Qualitative Approach
the public's opinions on the use of the death penalty. Furthermore, this research examines whether individuals' support or opposition for the death penalty varies with the introduction of different circumstances and information. Literature Review . Although a large amount of research in this area has been conducted by academics,
Deterrence and the Death Penalty: The Views of the Experts
the death penalty given an alternative of life without parole, support decreases significantly.7 In 1991, Gallup found that 76% of Americans supported the death penalty, but that support would drop to 53% if life imprisonment without parole were available as an alternative.8 While most deterrence research has found that the death penalty
The Ethics of Capital Punishment and a Law of Affective Enchantment
The death penalty in the United States has been under attack for decades now. Throughout its history, state governments have adopted varying modes of execution, justifying each on the basis that it provided a more civilised and humane method of putting inmates to death (Sarat, 2016).At the end of the nineteenth century, execution by hanging was replaced with the electric chair, making the ...
Cruel Choice: The Ethics and Morality of the Death Penalty
This paper is an in-depth analysis of various facts and evidence focusing on the death penalty in the USA. Special attention is paid to the 31 states whose laws permit death penalty as a form of ...
PDF Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on Murder
rather critical response to recent death penalty research published in the Stanford Law Review in December 2005. In that paper we evaluated many of the death penalty studies that Rubin deemed to establish the deterrent effect of the death penalty. In each case the foundation for these claims
PDF The Death Penalty and Human Rights
penalty is no longer acceptable in modern society, given what we know about its. arbitrariness and mistakes, and given the alternatives that are now in place. The thesis of this paper is that international law and an analysis based on human. rights are useful means to address the death penalty in the U.S.
PDF Reevaluating the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Model and Data
results of conflicting studies. Thirty-eight states currently have a death-penalty law. The capital punishment literature has been marked by strongly opposing views. Since Issac Ehrlich's original contributions in (1975) and (1977), the field has produced a range of papers supporting and opposing capital punishment. The fundamental problem
The research on capital punishment: Recent scholarship and unresolved
Another strategy researchers have taken is to limit the focus of studies on potential short-term effects of the death penalty. In a 2009 paper, "The Short-Term Effects of Executions on Homicides: Deterrence, Displacement, or Both?" authors Kenneth C. Land and Hui Zheng of Duke University, along with Raymond Teske Jr. of Sam Houston State ...
Death Penalty
Most Americans Favor the Death Penalty Despite Concerns About Its Administration. Nearly eight-in-ten U.S. adults (78%) say there is some risk an innocent person will be put to death, and 63% say the death penalty does not deter people from committing serious crimes. short readsJan 22, 2021.
Attitudes towards the death penalty: An assessment of individual and
In this paper, we draw on a dataset of 135,000 people from across 81 nations to examine differences in death penalty support. ... There is mixed evidence about the role of religious values in shaping death penalty support. Some research finds that religious people tend to have lower levels of support for the death penalty and similar punitive ...
The Death Penalty in the United States
Whereas recent empirical research reviewing all death penalty cases in the United States concluded that two thirds of the death penalty cases from 1973 to 1995 were overturned on appeal with the most common reasons cited as incompetent counsel, inadequate investigative services, or the police and prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence.
Against the Death Penalty
death penalty were just recently at an all-time high of 80% in the 1990s, but a rapid decline to the. most recent 54% shows an erosion for death penalty support in the United States.4 Also included. in the report was a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, which showed that over half of.
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The abolitionist movement to end capital punishment also influenced state legislatures. By the early 1900s, most states had adopted laws that allowed juries to apply either the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison. Executions in the United States peaked during the 1930s at an average rate of 167 per year.
ABSTRACT. Capital punishment, also known as death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice. whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Since at. present 58 ...
Numerous opinion polls have revealed that a majority of Americans have supported the death penalty for more than 40 years. However, the results from a 2013 Gallup poll revealed the lowest support for the death penalty since 1972 (Jones, 2013).Furthermore, as discussed in the literature review, a body of evidence from research has begun to develop over the past 40 years, which has provided ...
The death penalty, for most of history a commonplace part of political culture, has clearly been in decline in recent decades. There are fewer executions and death sentences globally, and fewer countries have the death penalty in their statutes; as the most authoritative global survey describes, since the early 1990s "there has been a revolution in the discourse on and practice of capital ...
"The death penalty is, in our common experience, an atavistic relic from the past that should be shed in the 21st century", said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk in April, 2023, during the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council. The death penalty has existed since the Code of Hammurabi, with its history seeped in politics and discrimination. Physicians have been ...
In this paper, we draw on a dataset of 135,000 people from across 81 nations to examine differences in death penalty support. ... There is mixed evidence about the role of religious values in shaping death penalty support. Some research finds that religious people tend to have lower levels of support for the death penalty and similar punitive ...
This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it? Second, how should we understand the role of race in shaping the distinctive path of capital punishment in the United States, given our ...
The death penalty is inhumane and violates the fundamental right to life. Physician involvement enables this continuing abuse of human rights and undermines the four pillars of medical ethics—beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice. Universal condemnation of the death penalty, by physicians and medical associations alike, is an ...
Donohue, John and Justin J. Wolfers. "The Death Penalty: No Evidence For Deterrence," The Economists' Voice, 2006, v3 (5,Apr), Article 3. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and ...
I. Introduction and a Road Map On January 1, 2008, Uzbekistan became the ninety-second country to have abolished the death penalty for all criminal offenses, whether committed in wartime or peacetime or under civil or military criminal codes. In addition, 10 other nations had already abolished it for all.
This paper argues that, under the spirit of Jefferson's Declaration, the death penalty is a blatant violation of human rights, regardless the crime. It is a denial of the most basic human right of life (Center for Constitutional Rights). This paper proceeds in three parts. Section I provides context by discussing the history of the death penalty.
the public's opinions on the use of the death penalty. Furthermore, this research examines whether individuals' support or opposition for the death penalty varies with the introduction of different circumstances and information. Literature Review . Although a large amount of research in this area has been conducted by academics,
the death penalty given an alternative of life without parole, support decreases significantly.7 In 1991, Gallup found that 76% of Americans supported the death penalty, but that support would drop to 53% if life imprisonment without parole were available as an alternative.8 While most deterrence research has found that the death penalty
The death penalty in the United States has been under attack for decades now. Throughout its history, state governments have adopted varying modes of execution, justifying each on the basis that it provided a more civilised and humane method of putting inmates to death (Sarat, 2016).At the end of the nineteenth century, execution by hanging was replaced with the electric chair, making the ...
This paper is an in-depth analysis of various facts and evidence focusing on the death penalty in the USA. Special attention is paid to the 31 states whose laws permit death penalty as a form of ...
rather critical response to recent death penalty research published in the Stanford Law Review in December 2005. In that paper we evaluated many of the death penalty studies that Rubin deemed to establish the deterrent effect of the death penalty. In each case the foundation for these claims
penalty is no longer acceptable in modern society, given what we know about its. arbitrariness and mistakes, and given the alternatives that are now in place. The thesis of this paper is that international law and an analysis based on human. rights are useful means to address the death penalty in the U.S.
results of conflicting studies. Thirty-eight states currently have a death-penalty law. The capital punishment literature has been marked by strongly opposing views. Since Issac Ehrlich's original contributions in (1975) and (1977), the field has produced a range of papers supporting and opposing capital punishment. The fundamental problem
Another strategy researchers have taken is to limit the focus of studies on potential short-term effects of the death penalty. In a 2009 paper, "The Short-Term Effects of Executions on Homicides: Deterrence, Displacement, or Both?" authors Kenneth C. Land and Hui Zheng of Duke University, along with Raymond Teske Jr. of Sam Houston State ...
Most Americans Favor the Death Penalty Despite Concerns About Its Administration. Nearly eight-in-ten U.S. adults (78%) say there is some risk an innocent person will be put to death, and 63% say the death penalty does not deter people from committing serious crimes. short readsJan 22, 2021.
In this paper, we draw on a dataset of 135,000 people from across 81 nations to examine differences in death penalty support. ... There is mixed evidence about the role of religious values in shaping death penalty support. Some research finds that religious people tend to have lower levels of support for the death penalty and similar punitive ...
Whereas recent empirical research reviewing all death penalty cases in the United States concluded that two thirds of the death penalty cases from 1973 to 1995 were overturned on appeal with the most common reasons cited as incompetent counsel, inadequate investigative services, or the police and prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence.
death penalty were just recently at an all-time high of 80% in the 1990s, but a rapid decline to the. most recent 54% shows an erosion for death penalty support in the United States.4 Also included. in the report was a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, which showed that over half of.
News about Death Penalty Information Center. Commentary and archival information about Death Penalty Information Center from The New York Times.