Punishment and the death penalty : the current debate / edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-256)

Punishment / J.D. Mabbott -- Two concepts of rules / John Rawls -- Therapy, not punishment / Karl Menninger -- Punishment v. rehabilitation / Richard Wasserstrom -- Persons and punishment / Herbert Morris -- Playing fair with punishment / Richard Dagger -- Punishment of the innocent / Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, & Constance E. Putnam -- A general history of capital punishment in America / Information Plus -- The crusade against capital punishment / J. Gordon Melton -- On deterrence and the death penalty - Ernest van den Haag -- Casting the first stone / Lloyd Steffen -- In spite of innocence : erroneous convictions in capital cases / Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, & Constance E. Putnam -- The morality of anger / Walter Berns -- Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered? / Stephen Nathanson -- Justice, civilization, and the death penalty : answering van den Haag / Jeffrey H. Reiman -- Refuting Reiman and Nathanson / Ernest van den Haag -- Safely executed / Christie Davies -- Capital punishment and contemporary values : people's misgivings and the court's misperceptions / William Bowers -- Callins v. Collins : Justice Blackmun's dissenting opinion -- Callins v. Collins : Justice Scalia's concurring opinion.

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