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Death Penalty In America -- Recent Pew Study, Robert Sanger

Robert M. Sanger

The Pew Research Center published the results of its 2013 survey in a release dated February 12, 2014. That study has implications for the continuation of the death penalty in America and California, in particular. It also contains some striking results with regard to the position taken by the game theory strategists who argue against discussing the moral issues.

Capital Punishment In Recent Literature -- Jaques Derrida, Robert Sanger

Robert M. Sanger

The University of Chicago Press has just published The Death Penalty, Volume One (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida) translated by Peggy Kamuf. They are the lectures of the late continental philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) on capital punishment. Derrida is the author of deconstruction (if deconstruction were allowed to have an author) and has a reputation for being, let us say, opaque in his writings.

In his later years, he took up certain legal and political issues in a fashion that seems more intelligible. Particularly, Derrida’s lectures on moral subjects were popular in the United States as well as Europe. The …

The Dilemmas Of Excessive Sentencing: Death May Be Different But How Different?, Michael Meltsner

Michael Meltsner

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