81. Billy Budd And Capital Punishment 24) When revived in the late 1860s, the anticapital-punishment movement oftenseemed Voices Against death American Opposition to capital punishment, http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/bbcap.htm

Billy Budd and Capital Punishment A Tale of Three Centuries by H. Bruce Franklin Has any work of American literature generated more antithetical and mutually hostile interpretation than Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor ? And all the battles about the moral and political vision at the heart of the tale swirl around one question: Are we supposed to admire or condemn Captain Vere for his decision to sentence Billy Budd to death by public hanging? Somehow, astonishingly enough, nobody seems to have noticed that central to the story is the subject of capital punishment and its history. This is true even in the ten essays constituting the first number of Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature , which was devoted to Billy Budd becausein the words of law professor Richard H. Weisbergit is "the text that has come to 'mean' Law and Literature." The closest encounter with the issue of capital punishment in these essays or elsewhere comes from Weisberg's antagonist, Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (and a self-styled "new critic"), who condemns those who "condemn Vere's conduct" as mere "liberals" who are "uncomfortable with authority, including military authority, and hate capital punishment" ("most literary critics are liberals," adds Posner). According to the judge, "we must not read modern compunctions about capital punishment into a story written a century ago." Yet during the very years that Melville was composing the story1886 to 1891national and international attention was focused on the climax of a century-long battle over capital punishment unfolding in the very place where Melville was livingNew York State. Why have we overlooked something so obvious? Is it because we ignore the history of capital punishment in the nineteenth century, including its profound influence on American culture?

82. Death Penalty The End Of Executions? The Anti-Death Penalty Movement Is Gatherin The antideath Penalty Movement is Gathering Force. by Linda Lutton Six statesare currently conducting reviews of their capital punishment systems, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Justice/End_Executions.html

The End of Executions? The Anti-Death Penalty Movement is Gathering Force by Linda Lutton In These Times, October 2000 When Bill Ryan started visiting Death Row prisoners in Illinois some five years ago, he got a lot of unsympathetic reactions from friends. "It used to be that I would talk about being opposed to the death penalty and people would look at me like I was crazy," says Ryan, a retired social worker who helped form the Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium Project in 1996. "I live in suburbia, and there are a lot of very conservative people out here. They'd look at me like I was nuts." No longer, he says. For death penalty activists, the landscape has undergone a sea change in a very short time. Not long ago, people like Bill Ryan were toiling in an environment where politicians embraced executions as evidence they were tough on crime, and where the death penalty had such overwhelming support that it barely registered as a debatable issue. Now, particularly after Illinois' pro-death penalty Gov. George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions in that state, the movement to end the death penalty has been catapulted forward. Six states are currently conducting reviews of their capital punishment systems, as is the federal government. Both chambers of the New Hampshire state legislature voted to abolish the death penalty in that state (though the measure was vetoed by the Democratic governor). Moratorium legislation is pending in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and Missouri, and similar bills have been introduced in 10 other states over the past two years. A spate of city governments have passed resolutions supporting moratoriums. In Congress, several bills are pending that would impose moratoriums or institute safeguards against wrongful convictions.

83. New American, The: Ten Anti-death Penalty Fallacies: The Case Against Capital Pu Ten antideath penalty fallacies the case against capital punishment relies onmyth, misinformation, and misplaced emotionalism. (Crime and punishment). http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1993/is_200206/ai_n7051674

@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles New American, The June 2002 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Featured Titles for Advocate, The Air Force Journal of Logistics Air Force Law Review Air Force Speeches ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Save a personal copy of any page on the Web and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free. Get started now. Ten anti-death penalty fallacies: the case against capital punishment relies on myth, misinformation, and misplaced emotionalism. (Crime and Punishment). New American, The June, 2002 by Thomas R. Eddlem Renewed attacks on the death penalty are likely as the trial of accused Twin Tower bombing accomplice Zacharias Moussaoui proceeds. Federal officials have charged Moussaoui with six crimes, four of which carry a potential death sentence. Amnesty International has already issued an "urgent action alert" to call on the world to condemn this "outdated punishment" in the United States. Therefore, there is no time like the present to review some of the misinformation and faulty reasoning of capital punishment opponents. FALLACY #1: Racism "The death penalty is racist.... [T]he federal death penalty is used disproportionately against minorities, especially African Americans.... ...

84. Deadline: Resources American Friends Service Committee — Criminal Justice/antideath Penalty Program Catholics Against capital punishment was founded in 1992 to promote http://deadlinethemovie.com/get_involved/resources.php

Take Action Glossary Timeline of Death Penalty Timeline of Governor Ryan's Time in Office ... High School Initiative If you'd like to know more about the film, please join our mailing list Resources Deadline Discussion Guide Go to our Outreach page to download a complimentary copy of a 8-page discussion guide created with Active Voice Organizations Featured in Deadline The Center on Wrongful Convictions The Center on Wrongful Convictions is based in Illinois and is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice. Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama Equal Justice Initiative provides assistance for death row inmates during the post-conviction appeals process. Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation is a national organization of family members of both homicide and state killings who oppose the death penalty in all cases. The Deadline DVD features additional excerpts of Mamie Till Mobley's speech, a moving and powerful explanation of why she stands against the death penalty. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

85. Death Penalty/Capital Punishment equal justice and (death penalty or capital punishment) More antideathpenalty statistics and opinions along with capital punishment report cards for http://library.smc.edu/research/topics/deathpenalty.htm

Home About Catalog E-resources ... Research Topics Death Penalty/Capital Punishment This guide is an introduction to the research process that, while not being an exhaustive list of information resources available, should be helpful in getting started in your research about the death penalty. Below you will find pointers to suggested research terms about the death penalty, materials in the library catalog about the death penalty, websites relevant to the death penalty, and links to library databases that contain information about death penalty. Please use our email reference service , contact us at (310) 434-4254, or visit us in the library at the reference desk if you need further assistance. Go to: Suggested Research Terms Materials in the Library Catalog Websites Library Databases Suggested Research Terms One of the really helpful things when searching for information about a topic is a short list of terms related to a topic. We think the following terms will help with your research about the Death Penalty: When searching for books in our library, it is best to remain fairly general, and therefore you would use simple words or phrases.

86. Capital Punishment capital punishment is the coldest, most premeditated form of homicide. Also, antideath penalty activists arguments, as well as, supporters are http://www.arches.uga.edu/~angelw/capitalpunishment.html

Capital Punishment "We kill people to show people that killing people is wrong." "An eye for an eyeand everyone is blind." ~Ghandi Two wrongs do not make a right: this statement also deals with capital punishment. Capital punishment is the coldest, most premeditated form of homicide. The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment and should be outlawed since the eighth amendment clearly condemns this punishment against all humans. Capital punishment is immorally wrong because it is cruel and unusual punishment through the taking of one’s life, it involves physical torture and it is an attempt to play God. Also, the death penalty takes away any chance of a criminal’s rehabilitation and donation back to society. Supporters of the death penalty state that retribution is not the reason behind the death penalty and if it was "criminals would be executed in the way they murdered their victims" (Carmical 2). Yet, today, about 3,700 people occupy death row in thirty-eight states (Gearan 2). Since 1965, 682 people went to trial and faced a possible death penalty sentence (Zuber 1). These statistics greatly contradict the principle stated in the Bill of Rights that every person has the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". In addition, the death penalty is irreversible, so innocent lives can be taken. Methods such as: lethal injection, electrocution,lethal gas, hanging, and firing squad do not allow an opportunity of a second chance in case of a mistake (Carmical 2). Proof that mistakes have been made was shown through "a recent study by a Columbia University professor of more than 4,500 death-penalty appeals filed from 1973 to 1995 indicated that 68% of the convictions were reversed because of problems in states' capital punishment systems" (Loci 1). A prisoner discovered to be blameless can be freed; but neither release nor compensation is possible for a corpse.

87. Guide To Texas Death Penalty Law Against capital punishment The antideath Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994 (2ndfloor, HV 8699 U5 H35 1996). America s Experiment with capital http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/vlibrary/outlines/deathpenprint.html

UT Law UT UT Libraries Home ... Publications Guide to Texas death penalty law Accessing information on criminal punishment, and more specifically the death penalty, is a common topic for students. This pathfinder is a resource for locating statistics and legal materials on the death penalty. INTRODUCTION Texas procedure generally In Texas, the district courts have original jurisdiction for all criminal felony cases. If an individual is convicted of a capital felony, he or she may be subject to punishment by death, if the State sought such punishment. A capital felony is one in which an individual "intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual," under special circumstances. In particular, the: murder of a public safety officer, firefighter, or correctional employee; murder during the commission of specified felonies (kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated rape, arson); murder for remuneration; multiple murders; murder during prison escape; murder of a correctional officer; murder by a state prison inmate who is serving a life sentence for any of five offenses; [or] murder of an individual under six years of age In Texas, a person must be of at least 17 years of age at the time of the crime to have the death penalty imposed upon him or her

88. Capital Punishment :: Term Papers, Essays - Free Summary Of Research Paper #2860 The paper analyzes the topic of capital punishment, debated and has alwaysbeen divisive and emotional for both sides, both pro and anti death penalty. http://www.academon.com/lib/paper/28604.html

Home Sell Buy FAQs ... Contact Us Welcome to AcaDemon We have thousands of high-quality term papers, research papers, essays, book reports and dissertations on every topic. At AcaDemon, you can download those term papers to help you write yours! You can be sure that the term paper, essay, book report or research paper, you download are top-quality, competitively priced and high-level work. Papers on "Capital Punishment" and similar term paper topics: Paper #028604 :: Capital Punishment - Buy and instantly download this paper now The paper analyzes the topic of capital punishment, focusing specifically on the Washington D.C. sniper case, to argue why the death penalty is a necessary form of punishment for violent crimes, and should not be abolished. 1,329 words, 6 sources, MLA, $ 45.95 USD Paper Summary: The paper looks at the pros and cons of capital punishment and then examines the issue of jurisdiction in the case of the Washington D.C. sniper, since only certain states carry the death penalty. The paper also discusses a new anti-terrorism law enacted after September 11th 2001, that says a murderer can receive the death penalty if they shoot more than one person within three years. The paper argues that the death penalty is the only real deterrent to violent crime and therefore should not be abolished. From the Paper: "Capital punishment is not a simple issue; it has long been debated and has always been divisive and emotional for both sides, both pro and anti death penalty. In the United States, the debated over capital punishment began soon after American achieved independence from England. Some Americans wondered if any person or government really had the right to take a human life (Vila and Morris xxv), and the dispute has raged ever since. Obviously, capital punishment is necessary, or so many inmates would not have been put to death in the United States. Between 1977 and 2000, 683 inmates have been put to death under their state's death penalty laws. The states use several different methods to carry out the death penalty. 519 were by lethal injection, 149 were by electrocution, 11 were by lethal gas, 2 were by firing squad, and 3 were by hanging (Editors 347). "

89. The Death Penalty, But Sparingly - Human Rights Magazine, Summer 2001 All of the instrumental or complementary reasons chorused by antideath penalty capital punishment is not invariably degrading or humiliating. http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/summer01/fein.html

You currently do not have JavaScript enabled in your web browser. The ABA website relies on JavaScript for display purposes. To fully experience the ABA site, please enable javascript. Human Rights The Death Penalty, but Sparingly By Bruce Fein Editor's Note: In an effort to present various perspectives on the death penalty, the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities invited Bruce Fein to contribute the following article. Death penalty abolitionists are unpersuasive. Who ever shed a tear over the trial and execution of Adolph Eichmann by Israel for his unspeakable complicity in the Holocaust? Ditto for Japanese archvillain Hideko Tojo for Pearl Harbor, the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, and gruesome bacteriological experimentation on U.S. prisoners of war. Or who would balk at capital punishment for an American who lethally poisoned hundreds of thousands by resorting to biological or chemical contamination of the nation's water supplies? The crimes of rape, torture, treason, kidnapping, murder, larceny, and perjury pivot on a moral code that escapes apodictic proof by expert testimony or otherwise. But communities would plunge into anarchy-a state of nature where life is poor, brutish, nasty, and short, according to Hobbes-if they could not act on moral assumptions less certain than that the sun will rise in the east and set in the west. Relative Arguments Abolitionists may contend that the death penalty is inherently immoral because governments should never take human life, no matter what the provocation. But that is an article of faith, not of fact, just like the opposite position held by abolitionist detractors, including myself. All of the instrumental or complementary reasons chorused by anti-death penalty supporters do not withstand scrutiny.

90. Boomers Against Death Mickey Kaus This suggests two other wellsprings of increased antideath-penalty sentimentthat may be PS The current shift against capital punishment has another http://slate.msn.com/id/1004944/

placeAd(1,'slate.news/slate') Print E-mail Discuss Newsletters ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search placeAd(3,'slate.homepage/slate') placeAd(6,'slate.homepage/slate'); kausfiles special Political commentary and more. Boomers Against Death Mickey Kaus Posted Monday, March 27, 2000, at 11:37 AM PT In this weekend's New York Times Magazine , Bruce Shapiro argues that the American public's attitude toward capital punishment "seems to be approaching a political tipping point." He notes that a recent Gallup poll had 66 percent supporting the death penalty, down from 80 percent a few years ago. Shapiro (citing criminologist Robert Bohm) attributes the drop to "doubts about the death penalty's quotidian administration: about false conviction, racial discrimination, and other questions of fairness" rather than any rejection of the "fundamental premise" of capital punishment. Americans, he argues, increasingly object to "the unequal, corrupt, and racist reality of the capital trial apparatus." Continue Article placeAd(2,'slate.homepage/slate') Shapiro seems to be on to something; the recent discovery of falsely convicted people on death row has clearly had a large impact, not the least on Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who earlier this year imposed a moratorium on executions. But this very impact casts doubt on Shapiro's argument that Americans are also disgusted by the "unequal ... racist" application of capital punishment.

91. Byron York On Death Penalty & Polls On National Review Online Opponents of the death penalty argued that the capitalpunishment system was a temporary setback for the anti-death-penalty movement but a more lasting http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york052703.asp

cddcodebase = "/";cddcodebase454632 = "/"; HELP Author Archive E-mail Author Send to a Friend <% dim printurl printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version May 27, 2003, 9:00 a.m. Capital Popularity Americans increasingly support the death penalty. t's happened quietly, mostly unnoticed by the press, but in the past two years something important has been going on in the debate over the death penalty in America. Support for capital punishment, which had been falling, has turned around and is now rising. In a new Gallup poll, 74 percent of those surveyed say they favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder. Just two years ago, in May 2001, support stood at 65 percent, its lowest point in more than two decades. The latest increase has been slow but steady. In October 2001, 68 percent favored capital punishment. That rose to 72 percent by May 2002, and dipped slightly to 70 percent in October 2002 before rising to 74 percent. The climb has reversed a trend that began in the late 1990s, when support for the death penalty fell as a result of the "innocence" movement. Opponents of the death penalty argued that the capital-punishment system was so flawed, and the chance of an innocent person's being executed so great, that the whole system should be abolished.

92. Guest Comment Red herrings from the antideath-penalty squad. Hence, rather than arguingthat capital punishment is immoral, death- penalty opponents have shifted to http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment062300b.html

Columns Current Issue Goldberg File Nota Bene ... The Coming Reparations Boondoggle 6/23/00 9:00 a.m. The Guilty Are Being Executed Red herrings from the anti-death-penalty squad. By Robert Pambianco, Chief Policy Counsel for the Washington Legal Foundation he media’s newfound intense obsession with the death penalty reached fever pitch this week with the scheduled execution of Gary Graham in Texas. The case has become a cause celebre for death-penalty opponents. They have made Graham the poster child for their efforts to undermine public support for capital punishment by raising the specter of innocent people being put death. Death-penalty opponents have conceded that they cannot win the argument about whether the death penalty is appropriate in certain circumstances. Despite their best efforts, the public remains convinced that some crimes are so heinous that no other punishment will suffice. Hence, rather than arguing that capital punishment is immoral, death- penalty opponents have shifted to a utilitarian argument about fairness. Specifically, they have sought to convince people that capital punishment will lead to the execution of many innocents. From a public-relations standpoint, the new tactic makes sense.

93. Abolish The Death Penalty Our mission is to put a human face on the debate over capital punishment. In 2000, the antideath penalty group Equal Justice USA released a national http://www.deathpenaltyusa.blogspot.com/

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94. Random Ravings - Capital Punishment Abolish the death Penalty has a rundown of some of the best antideath penalty Would those that support capital punishment be so strong in their support http://www.brendoman.com/hippydave?cat=192

95. Capital Punishment, Parole, And More (Gotham Gazette. August, 2002) This month s article is capital punishment, Parole, And More by Julia VitulloMartin . The Carnegie Deli slayings had focused attention on the anti-death http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/20020801/4/119

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96. Anti-Death Penalty Activists Buoyed By Nichols Verdict Nichols demonstrates again the inconsistency in the way capital punishment isapplied in the United States, antideath penalty activists said on Monday. http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0614-07.htm

97. FT August/September 2005: Articles capital punishment may occasionally be necessary in a modern democracy, Voltaire came across the antideath-penalty arguments of an Italian http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0508/articles/bottum.html

Christians and the Death Penalty Joseph Bottum In 1981, on the campus of Cornell University, Michael Ross murdered a young woman named Dzung Ngoc Tu. Over the next year, he raped and killed Tammy Williams, Paula Perrera, and Debra Smith Taylor. In 1983, he added Robin Stavinsky. On Easter Sunday in 1984, he abducted, sexually assaulted, and strangled Leslie Shelley and April Brunais, both just fourteen years old, after he caught them walking along a Connecticut road. Two months later, he raped and killed another Connecticut girl, the seventeen-year-old Wendy Baribeault, leaving her body behind a stone fence along the highway. The man was a monster, and he got at least a small portion of his desserts, long delayed but nonetheless real, over twenty years later, when, on May 13, 2005, executioners in a Connecticut prison injected poison into his veins while the families of his victims watched. He gasped and shuddered, one witness reported, as the needle went home and the poison began to work. Then the color drained from his face, and he was dead: executed at last, and justly, for the destruction of his innocent, undeserving prey. this particular story really happened.

98. Law: Capital Punishment Term Paper Help to Order capital punishment. Argues against use of the death penalty as analysis of Steven Goldberg s antideath penalty article On capital punishment. http://www.research-assistance.com/hazel-doc/ra-topics/law_capital_punishment.ht

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99. Hugo Adam Bedau: Books On Capital Punishment Who Owns death? capital punishment, the American Conscience, Amnesty Internationaland other antideath-penalty organizations took initial steps to http://www.bostonreview.net/BR27.2/bedau.html

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100. The Austin Chronicle: Politics: At Home With Capital Punishment antideath-penalty activists march down Congress Avenue on Saturday. That said,although a number of bills indeed proposed capital punishment reform, http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-10-24/pols_feature3.html

CURRENT ISSUE TABLE OF CONTENTS news arts ... POLITICS : AT HOME WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT At Home With Capital Punishment BY MICHAEL KING Anti-death-penalty activists march down Congress Avenue on Saturday. Following a march through downtown to the Governor's Mansion and the Capitol, a couple of hundred death penalty abolitionists gathered Saturday afternoon at what they called the third point on "the axis of evil" the Court of Criminal Appeals, where many wrongly convicted Texas defendants have had their cases run aground before the heavily politicized and prosecution-biased justices. While acknowledging this was a bad legislative year for Texas advocates of justice, David Attwood of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty insisted he remains undaunted, even optimistic. "We will win this battle," Attwood told the crowd, and recited the reasons he remains hopeful. "Over the last 10 to 15 years," he said, "we have gone from a handful of people to a movement of hundreds of people. When we began, all the state's major newspapers supported the death penalty; now several major state newspapers have either opposed the death penalty altogether, or at least called for a moratorium. Five or 10 years ago, not a single state legislator was willing to publicly oppose the death penalty. Now several have been willing to file bills calling for a moratorium. ..." That said, although a number of bills indeed proposed capital punishment reform, there was no legislative progress against the death penalty this year.

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