Spring 2004
The Future of Capital Punishment: Current Policies and New Debates

Learning Links & Readings

Deterrence

“Attitudes toward the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty, by Demographic Characteristics, United States, 1999 (Table 2.65).” Bureau of Justice Statistics Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1999, p. 137.

“The Case against the Death Penalty” by Hugo Adam Bedau. American Civil Liberties Union.

“Death Penalty Facts: Deterrence.” Amnesty International Program to Abolish the Death Penalty.

“Deterrent or Disgrace: America’s Death Penalty.” Justice Talking.
Produced by the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center, Justice Talking is a one-hour radio program that takes an in-depth look at the cases and controversies that come before our nation’s courts.

“States with No Death Penalty Share Lower Homicide Rates” by Raymond Bonner and Ford Fessenden. The New York Times on the Web, September 22, 2000.

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