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Capital Punishment: For Or Against, Jan Gorecki Feb 1985

Capital Punishment: For Or Against, Jan Gorecki

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Death Penalty -- A Debate by Ernest van den Haag and John Conrad


Capital Punishment: Criminal Law And Social Evolution, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Capital Punishment: Criminal Law And Social Evolution, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Capital Punishment: Criminal Law and Social Evolution by Jan Gorecki


Berger's Defense Of The Death Penalty: How Not To Read The Constitution, Hugo Adam Bedau Mar 1983

Berger's Defense Of The Death Penalty: How Not To Read The Constitution, Hugo Adam Bedau

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Death Penalties: The Supreme Court's Obstacle Course by Raoul Berger


The Death Penalty In America, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

The Death Penalty In America, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Death Penalty in America (Third Edition) by Hugo Adam Bedau


Desert And Deterrence: An Assessment Of The Moral Bases Of The Case For Capital Punishment, Richard O. Lempert May 1981

Desert And Deterrence: An Assessment Of The Moral Bases Of The Case For Capital Punishment, Richard O. Lempert

Michigan Law Review

The controversy over the death penalty has generated arguments of two types. The first argument appeals to moral intuitions; the second concerns deterrence. Although both types of argument speak to the morality of systems of capital punishment, the first debate has been dominated by moral philosophers and the second by empirical social scientists. For convenience I shall at times refer to the approach of the moral philosophers as the moral case for (or against) capital punishment or as the argument from morality.


For Capital Punishment, Michigan Law Review Mar 1980

For Capital Punishment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Book Notice about For Capital Punishment by Walter Berns


Constitutional Law-Due Process-Right Of Condemned Prisoner To A Hearing On Claim Of Supervening Insanity, Robert P. Griffin S.Ed. Jun 1950

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Right Of Condemned Prisoner To A Hearing On Claim Of Supervening Insanity, Robert P. Griffin S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner was convicted of murder in a Georgia court and sentenced to die by electrocution. He made application to the governor to postpone execution on the ground that he had become insane after conviction. The governor, acting under authority of a state statute, appointed three physicians who conducted an examination of petitioner and found him sane. Thereupon, petitioner filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a state court contending that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entitled him to a hearing on his insanity claim before a judicial or administrative tribunal at which he could …


Mild Punishments, Robert Mcmurdy Apr 1917

Mild Punishments, Robert Mcmurdy

Michigan Law Review

If life, freedom, or hope be taken from man, he is ashes. Therefore we ought not to take away any of them lightly. But some, restraint or punishment is necessary. We often miss our aim, however,'by prescribing punishments that are too severe, whereupon human nature revolts, so that it is "impossible to combine certainty with severity," a lesson we have long since learned from the experience of England.