Gary Edmond
Ashgate
Hardback
302
2004
Unsurprisingly much of the social science research agenda on the death penalty is centered in the United States a country that permits federal government and state governments to use death as a punishment for homicide. Scholars designed the agenda to speak on issues thought to be important in the ongoing campaign against capital punishment. Here they have focused on the adequacy of the philosophical justifications and policy rationales offered in support of the death penalty and have also examined the outcomes of capital punishment to determine whether the process lives up to certain legal and political standards.
Ashgate
Hardback
302
2004
Unsurprisingly much of the social science research agenda on the death penalty is centered in the United States a country that permits federal government and state governments to use death as a punishment for homicide. Scholars designed the agenda to speak on issues thought to be important in the ongoing campaign against capital punishment. Here they have focused on the adequacy of the philosophical justifications and policy rationales offered in support of the death penalty and have also examined the outcomes of capital punishment to determine whether the process lives up to certain legal and political standards.