Capital punishment and the death penalty - Annotated Bibliography Example

Capital Punishment/Death Penalty Annotated Bibliography Andre, C. & Velasquez, M. . Capital Punishment: Our Duty or Our Doom? Retrieved from httphttp://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/capitaltext.htmlThe article features an interview of Ellen Kreitzberg, who is an Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. It focuses on the ethical and legal concerns about death penalty or capital punishment in the United States.Banner, S. (2003). The Death Penalty: An American History. New York: Harvard University Press.

This book gives an extensive history of death punishment. It gives an explanation of how it is used to be executed during the colonial days and the changes it has undergone over the years with human progression. It also explains its effects to the victims as well as to the society.Charles, J.D. (1994). Sentiment as Social Justice: The Ethics of Capital Punishment. Christian Research Journal, 17, 1, 1-7.This article focuses on the ethics of death penalty, with the big question of whether it is an outrageous atrocity or moral imperative.

They explain the stand of the church on the matter with supportive information from the bible.Guernsey, J. B. (2009). Death Penalty: Fair Solution or Moral Failure? Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books.The author of this book discusses death penalty, providing an overview of its execution and a critically analysis this form of punishment with the question whether it is a fair solution or a moral failure. At some point, he looks at it as a government/state-sponsored killing and argues that it has a net brutalization effect of killing of more innocents.Hood, G. R. (2004). The Death Penalty: Beyond Abolition.

Strasbourg, France: Council of Europe.This book looks into the universal abolition of death penalty and the importance of abolishing it, evaluating it against human life (i.e. death penalty versus human life). It also looks into the families of both the condemned and the homicide victim.Jacobs, David. & Carmichael, Jason. (2002). “The Political Sociology of the Death Penalty: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis.” American Sociological Review, 67: 109-131. The author of this article tries to evaluate the forces that account for the legality of death penalty including social and political sources.

By evaluating racial/ethnic threat theories, he explains why death penalty is present in some jurisdictions and absent in others.Landauer, J. & Rowlands, J. (2001). The Death Penalty. Retrieved from http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Politics_DeathPenalty.htmlThis article looks into two aspects of the question whether it is okay to implement death penalty: the ethical aspect and the epistemological one. That is, the morality of executions and the necessary burden of proof/the epistemological argument.

Nathanson, Stephen. (2001). An eye for an eye: The immorality of punishing by death. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. This book critically evaluates capital punishment, which it presents as a form of punishment that follows the rule: ‘an eye for an eye’. It also offers statistical information on the support that death penalty receives from various regions. Peikrishvili, I. (2004). Death Is Not Justice – The Council of Europe and the Death Penalty. Retrieved from http://portal.coe.ge/index.php?lan=en&id=penaltyThis article features the Council of Europe’s view on death penalty.

The views are that death is not justice; death penalty is not a deterrent against crime; the justice system can and does make mistakes; human rights apply to everyone; and murderer should not be made into martyrs.Sunstein, Cass. & Vermeule, Adrian. (2006). “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? Acts, Omissions and Life-Life Tradeoffs.” Stanford Law Review, 58: 703-750. The authors of this article attempt to answer the question whether capital punishment is morally required. They do so by narrowing down into the acts, omissions and life-life tradeoffs involved in capital punishment.

They argue that the familiar problems with death penalty do not require abolition since those same problems face the realm of homicide in even more acute form.