Capital punishment /
Capital punishment / [print]
edited by Grant S. McClellan.
- New York : H.W. Wilson, (c)1961.
- 180 pages ; 20 cm.
- The Reference shelf ; v. 32, no. 6 .
Current status of the death penalty -- A sharp medicine reconsidered A fading practice -- Capital punishment? Yes Capital punishment? No Death is not the answer A Christian's view Five major issues Statement of the league to abolish capital punishment Function of capital punishment -- A minority report The state should not kill -- Trend toward abolition What the public thinks The death penalty today Psychiatric opinions A British viewpoint Statement Statement The chessman case -- Record of delays : coincidence or what? An editor's view of the Chessman case Sentimental versus scientific viewpoint The imperative to punish The penalty worse than death Parole : the issue and the promise Verdict guilty : now what? Evelle J. Younger -- John B.S. Edwards -- John Drinkwater -- Ernest Havemann -- Nevin E. Kendell -- Herbert Wechsler -- Donal E.J. MacNamara -- John R. Sennott, Jr. and Thomas J. Riley -- Donald R. Campion -- George Gallup -- Hugo Adam Bedau -- Emma Harrison -- Woodrow Wyatt -- Michael V. DiSalle -- Edmund G. Brown -- Mrs. Herbert B. Ehrmann -- Max Ascoli -- Giles Playfair -- David L. Bazelon -- Douglas C. Rigg -- Gertrude Samuels -- Karl Menninger.
61006701
Capital punishment.
HV8694.M478.C375 1961 HV8694
Current status of the death penalty -- A sharp medicine reconsidered A fading practice -- Capital punishment? Yes Capital punishment? No Death is not the answer A Christian's view Five major issues Statement of the league to abolish capital punishment Function of capital punishment -- A minority report The state should not kill -- Trend toward abolition What the public thinks The death penalty today Psychiatric opinions A British viewpoint Statement Statement The chessman case -- Record of delays : coincidence or what? An editor's view of the Chessman case Sentimental versus scientific viewpoint The imperative to punish The penalty worse than death Parole : the issue and the promise Verdict guilty : now what? Evelle J. Younger -- John B.S. Edwards -- John Drinkwater -- Ernest Havemann -- Nevin E. Kendell -- Herbert Wechsler -- Donal E.J. MacNamara -- John R. Sennott, Jr. and Thomas J. Riley -- Donald R. Campion -- George Gallup -- Hugo Adam Bedau -- Emma Harrison -- Woodrow Wyatt -- Michael V. DiSalle -- Edmund G. Brown -- Mrs. Herbert B. Ehrmann -- Max Ascoli -- Giles Playfair -- David L. Bazelon -- Douglas C. Rigg -- Gertrude Samuels -- Karl Menninger.
61006701
Capital punishment.
HV8694.M478.C375 1961 HV8694