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| | Capital Punishment [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Corporal punishment, such as flogging, and extreme types of capital punishment, such as burning at the stake, are no longer accepted practices because of their indignity. | | | Finally, critics of capital punishment argue that the true basis of retributive justifications of capital punishment is not at all foundational, but instead rooted in psychological feelings of vengeance. | | | Anecdotal evidence involves isolated observations which appear to correlate two states of affairs, which, in this case, would be (a) capital punishment, and (b) improved social conditions. |
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| | Chapter 29: POLICE, COURTS, AND LAWS---ON THE MARKET |
| | In the case of capital punishment, the two positions are directly opposed. | | | If the opponents of capital punishment feel more strongly than the proponents, the agencies will agree to no capital punishment; in exchange, the agencies that want capital punishment will get something else. | | | If some people feel one way and some the other, and if their feelings are strong enough to affect their choice of protection agencies, it pays some agencies to adopt a policy of guaranteeing, whenever possible, to use courts that do not recognize capital punishment. |
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| | CJBS: Capital Punishment |
| | Included in the anti-capital punishment defense were arguments that the death penalty is not a deterrent, is morally offensive and an archaic form of punishment. | | | As a justification for capital punishment, deterrence is used to suggest that executing murderers will decrease the homicide rate by causing other potential murderers not to commit murder for fear of being executed themselves ("general deterrence") and, of course, that the murderer who is executed will not kill again ("specific deterrence") (Bowers, 1988). | | | As a result of the public's apparent support for capital punishment, and the possibility of its return, it is important to continue studying factors that influence people's attitudes regarding the death penalty. |
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| | John W. Lamperti Capital Punishment |
| | It is sometimes suggested that capital punishment provides added protection to police or to prison guards, and a number of states which have abolished capital punishment for "ordinary" murder retain it for the killing of police or prison staff. | | | Bailey and Peterson, for example, conclude that "Deterrence and capital punishment studies have yielded a fairly consistent pattern of non deterrence." Although they find agreement that "the overall (general) homicide rate is not responsive to capital punishment," they do call for further research into particular types of crimes. | | | 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. |
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| | Capital Punishment |
| | Opponents of capital punishment who accuse the government of committing murder by implementing the death penalty fail to see the irony of using Exodus 20 to define murder but ignoring Exodus 21, which specifically teaches that government is to punish the murderer. | | | Furthermore, opponents of capital punishment candidly admit that they would oppose the death penalty even if it were an effective deterrent.(5) So while these are important social and political issues to consider, they are not sufficient justification for the abolition of the death penalty. | | | Opponents of capital punishment argue that it is not a deterrent, because in some states where capital punishment is allowed the crime rate goes up. |
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| | capital punishment - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about capital punishment |
| | Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1965 but still existed for treason and piracy until it was entirely abolished in 1998. | | | In Britain, the number of capital offences was reduced from over 200 at the end of the 18th century, until capital punishment was abolished in 1866 for all crimes except murder, treason, piracy, and certain arson attacks. | | | Capital punishment is retained in 87 countries and territories (2001), including the USA (38 states), China, and Islamic countries. |
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| | Catholics Against Capital Punishment CACP was founded in January 1992 to promote greater awareness of Catholic Church teachings that characterize capital punishment as inappropriate and unacceptable in today's world. | | | Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty Hebrew and Christian Scriptures relating to the Death Penalty. | | | Capital Punishment in Wisconsin 1995 document by the bishops of Wisconsin |
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| | Encyclopedia: Capital punishment |
| | Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime. | | | Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Belarus for a variety of crimes that are considered grave by the government. | | | According to the United Nations Secretary-General's quinquennial report on capital punishment, the highest per capita use of the death penalty is in Singapore, with a rate of 13.57 executions per one million population for the period of 1994 to 1999. |
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| | Capital punishment has been used all over the world as a means of punishing people for their crimes. | | | Capital punishment is one of the oldest forms of punishment in the world. | | | Capital cases are long and expensive, and there is no proof that capital punishment deters crime. |
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| | Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is killing as an irrevocable punishment for a crime often called a capital offence or a capital crime. | | | In most places that practice capital punishment today, the death penalty is reserved as a punishment for certain murders, espionage, or treason or part of military justice. | | | The 150-year ban on capital punishment has never been repealed, and as such the state is considered to be the first democracy in recorded history to have eliminated capital punishment. |
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| | Open Hand Capital Punishment Page |
| | Capital punishment does cost more than any other penalty exacted by the criminal justice system; even my estimates (which reflect only the cost of the original trials, and not appeals, death row housing, or execution infrastructure costs) come to this conclusion. | | | To assert that capital punishment does save innocent lives, and to base public policy on that assertion, we must have consistent evidence for the proposition; or, at the very least, have convincing explanations for the data that do not "fit" the case. | | | Studies on capital punishment fall into roughly three categories: a comparison of results, "econometrics" measurements, and studies of "individual" deterrence, in which researchers interview various criminals and ask them what effect punishments had on their behaviour. |
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| | Friday, September 20, 1996 -- PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS (071) |
| | punishment was in force, the conviction rate for a first degree murder was below 10 per cent and, after capital punishment was abolished, it increased to 20 per cent between 1976 and 1982, the study period. | | | Again, when capital punishment was abolished in 1960 and 1976, it was realized that its abolition had a direct effect on the conviction rate. | | | To focus on capital punishment as an optional sentence for first degree murder and to hold a national referendum on this issue really avoids grappling with the larger fundamental issue of how to promote the protection of society. |
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| | Death Penalty Links |
| | Capital punishment, is the execution of criminals by the state for committing crimes, regarded so heinous, that this is the only acceptable punishment. | | | Capital punishment does not only lower the murder rate, but its value as retribution alone is a good reason for handing out death sentences. | | | Columnist describes the virtues of capital punishment and the disaster wrought by the death penalty moratorium of the 1960's. |
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| | Death Penalty Links |
| | Capital punishment, is the execution of criminals by the state for committing crimes, regarded so heinous, that this is the only acceptable punishment. | | | Capital punishment does not only lower the murder rate, but its value as retribution alone is a good reason for handing out death sentences. | | | Capital punishment is not only an act of justice; it is also an act of mercy, even for the executed. |
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| | The Death Penalty |
| | The historical argument in favor of capital punishment has been the deterrent theory that a person contemplating the crime of murder will be dissuaded by the prospect of being executed for his or her crime. | | | Since the reenactment of capital punishment, several dozen condemned prisoners have been released from death row when their convictions were overturned in some cases where the evidence of their innocence was unmistakable. | | | The prototypical case for capital punishment would be that of Lawrence Singleton the man who, in 1979, raped 15-year-old Mary Vincent in California and then chopped her arms off with an ax. |
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| | Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime. | | | According to the United Nations Secretary-General's quinquennial report on capital punishment, the highest per capita use of the death penalty is in Singapore, with a rate of 13.57 executions per one million population for the period of 1994 to 1999. | | | The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which among other things forbids capital punishment for juveniles, has been signed and ratified by all countries except the USA and Somalia (Somalia at the present time is unable to ratify). |
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| | Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a crime (often called a capital offence or a capital crime), or as a deterrent to crime. | | | According to the United Nations Secretary-General's quinquennial report on capital punishment, the highest per capita use of the death penalty is in Singapore, with a rate of 13.57 executions per one million population for the period of 1994 to 1999. | | | Thus, capital punishment is the penalty for a crime so severe that it 'deserves' death, either by decapitation or otherwise. |
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| | The Economics of Capital Punishment |
| | If capital punishment were a significant deterrent to homicide, a sharply inverse relationship should appear between the two phenomena, particularly when seen in longitudinal perspective. | | | Regarding the controversy over deterrence; one might reasonably infer that capital punishment might, depending on the state of society at the moment, have a deterrent effect, have a brutalization effect, have no effect, or have a retaliatory effect. | | | The belief that the death penalty deters capital crimes, to a greater degree than the alternatives, can be the only rational argument in support of capital punishment. |
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| | BIGpedia - Capital punishment - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. | | | According to the United Nations Secretary-General's quinquennial report on capital punishment, the highest per capita use of the death penalty is in Singapore, with a rate of 13.57 executions per one million population for the period of 1994 to 1999. | | | Christians are divided on the issue of capital punishment—some are in favour, some are against it under all circumstances. |
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| | Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. | | | According to the United Nations Secretary-General's quinquennial report on capital punishment, the highest per capita use of the death penalty is in Singapore, with a rate of 13.57 executions per one million population for the period of 1994 to 1999. | | | While those against capital punishment might stick behind this as an irrevocable right, as protection from abuse is the basis of such rights, those for the practice may claim that the right was forfeit by the seriousness of the crime. |
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| | Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime. | | | Thus, capital punishment is the penalty for a crime so severe that it 'deserves' death, either by decapitation (losing one's head) or otherwise. | | | In the United States, the issue of capital punishment is largely left up to the individual states; the federal government reserves the right to perform executions, but does so extremely infrequently. |
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| | Christoph, J.B. Capital punishment and British politics; the British movement to abolish the death penalty, 1945-57. | | | Camus, A. Reflections on the guillotine, an essay on capital punishment. | | | Evans, R.J. Rituals of retribution: capital punishment in Germany, 1600-1987. |
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| | Capital punishment in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Secondly, capital punishment is applied flexibly to a wide range of crimes, some of which are punishable by death in no other judicial system in the world. | | | Finally, capital punishment in China can be imposed on crimes against symbols and treasures of the state, such as theft of cultural relics and the killing of pandas. | | | Capital punishment is also imposed on inchoate crimes, that is, attempted crimes which are not actually fully carried out, including repeat offenses such as attempted theft or attempted fraud. |
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| | Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is killing as punishment for a crime often called a capital offence or a capital crime. | | | In most places that practice capital punishment today, the death penalty is reserved as a punishment for certain murders, espionage, or treason or part of military justice. | | | On 30 November 1786, after having de facto blocked capital executions (the last was in 1769), Leopold promulgated the Reform of the penal code that abolished the death penalty and ordered the destruction of all the instruments for capital execution in his land. |
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| | The Death Penalty: The International Context |
| | The U.S. record on capital punishment is viewed with some alarm, as is demonstrated by international views of the death penalty in the U.S. Finally, links to selected other human rights sites are provided. | | | International Views of the Death Penalty in the U.S. Internationally, capital punishment is widely considered as a human rights issue, and the U.S. record on capital punishment is viewed with some alarm. | | | South African Constitutional Court rules that capital punishment for ordinary crimes is against its interim constitution; abolition in Spain and Mauritius; moratorium on executions in Moldova. |
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