literature review on capital punishment

stances, death is seen as a justifiable punishment. Part of the support for capital punishment comes from the belief that the death penalty is legitimate under a theory of 'just deserts."2 This justification suggests that murderers should be executed for re-tributive reasons: murderers should suffer, and the retributive effects

Furthermore, as discussed in the literature review, a body of evidence from research has begun to develop over the past 40 years, which has provided information regarding varying degrees of support certain groups of people have had for capital punishment, with White persons, males, Republicans, and less educated individuals generally expressing ...

Literature Review . Although a large amount of research in this area has been conducted by academics, much of our knowledge of death penalty opinion has been a result of public opinion polls (e.g., Gallup polls). Beginning with studies in the 1930s, public opinion on capital punishment has been measured in a variety of ways.

The abolitionist movement to end capital punishment also influenced state legislatures. By the early 1900s, most states had adopted laws that allowed juries to apply either the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison. Executions in the United States peaked during the 1930s at an average rate of 167 per year.

Abstract. This essay reviews foundational and cutting-edge social science research on capital punishment. It first describes policy-relevant work on the death penalty as legal punishment, and then provides a brief overview of the more recent contributions on capital punishment and social theory. The scope of relevant scholarship is limited to ...

The legal power to murder an offender for breaking a law is known as capital punishment. In Britain, the first death sentence statutes were enacted in the eighteenth century B.C. for 25 separate ...

Tyler Whisman. Joseph L. Fink III. Lethal injection as a method of state-sanctioned capital punishment was initially proposed in the United States in 1977 and used for the first time in 1982. Most ...

This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it? Second, how should we understand the role of race in shaping the distinctive path of capital punishment in the United States, given our ...

A review of the literature reveals that: (a) the number of death penalties have reduced in the recent past and are likely to reduce further in the future; (b) death penalty has contributed ...

This essay examines Death Penalty, a contemporary social issue in the world today. It gives a. general idea of what death penalty means and shows the argument revolving around th e. implementation ...