Killing as punishment : reflections on the death penalty in America /
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Boston :
Northeastern University Press,
c2004
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The death penalty in America, yesterday and today
- American populism : witnesses to an execution
- Convicting and executing the innocent
- Executive clemency in capital cases
- The choice between imprisonment and death
- A moral reading of the Eighth Amendment
- Human dignity and the Eighth Amendment
- Using moral principles to argue about the death penalty
- Abolishing the death penalty even for the worst murderers
- Epilogue