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Author Bedau, Hugo Adam.

Title Death is different : studies in the morality, law, and politics of capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau.

Publication Info. Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1987]
©1987

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  364.66 B399D    Check Shelf
Description xii, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Contents A matter of life and death -- The right to life and the right to kill -- A utilitarian critique of the death penalty -- Creul and unusual punishment -- The death penalty, imposed law, and the role of moral elites -- Abolishing the death penalty at the polls -- The "new" death penalty laws -- State constitutional law and the death penalty -- Punishing felony-murder-rape with a mandatory death penalty -- Witness to a persecution.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 280-295.
Subject Capital punishment -- United States.
Capital punishment -- United States -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Capital punishment -- Political aspects -- United States.
ISBN 1555530087 alkaline paper $25.00
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