@article{337863,
      author = {Baird, Robert M., and Rosenbaum, Stuart E.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/337863},
      title = {The death penalty : debating the moral, legal, and  political issues /},
      publisher = {Prometheus Books,},
      abstract = {"Does capital punishment act as a deterrent to the  commission of certain crimes? Is state-sponsored execution  of criminals abhorrent to the standards of civilized  society? Should the death penalty be outlawed as a  violation of the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution,  which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment? Should it be  outlawed because of the possibility that an innocent person  may be executed? Questions such as these are at the heart  of the debate over capital punishment. In this excellent  anthology, leading experts examines all sides of this  thorny issue. Besides age-old questions surrounding the  death penalty, some of the articles also address the impact  of new advances in DNA technology. In addition, editors  Baird and Rosenbaum provide edited excerpts from two  recent, controversial decisions by the United States  Supreme Court. In both cases, the Eighth Amendment came  into play. In the first, Kennedy v. Louisiana, the Court  ruled that the death penalty for raping a child, even in  the case of violent rape, when the death of the child is  not the result, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.  In the second, Baez v. Rees, the Court confirmed a lower  court's decision that the method of capital punishment used  in most states--lethal injection--does not violate the  Eighth Amendment. Anyone seeking greater clarity on the  moral, legal, and political implications of this  often-emotional debate will benefit from this balanced  collection"--Provided by publisher.},
      recid = {337863},
      pages = {379 p. :},
      address = {Amherst, N.Y. :},
      year = {2011},
}