1. Is capital punishment ethical?
Capital punishment is just / Dudley Sharp
Capital punishment grants reasonable retribution / Burton M. Leiser
Capital punishment is not immoral / Antonin Scalia
Capital punishment is necessary / Andrew Jones
Capital punishment cannot be justified / Sunil Dutta
Capital punishment does not grant reasonable retribution / Marvin E. Wolfgang
Capital punishment is immoral / Camille D'Arienzo
Capital punishment harms society / John D. Bessler
Execution is inhumane / Robert Murray
2. Is capital punishment administered fairly?
Capital punishment and fairness : an overview / Kenneth Jost
Capital punishment is applied unfairly / Steven W. Hawkins
Error pervades the U.S. capital punishment system / James S. Liebman et al.
Racism influences the administration of the death penalty / Jan Boudart
Capital punishment should be reformed to protect the innocent / Patrick Leahy
The mentally disadvantaged should not be sentenced to death / Michael B. Ross
Abolitionists distort data to make capital punishment seem unfair / Michael Tremoglie
Reports about errors in the U.S. capital punishment system are biased / Paul G. Cassell
Racism does not influence the administration of the death penalty / John Perazzo
Claims about innocents on death row are exaggerated / Ramesh Ponnuru
The mentally retarded should not be exempt from the death penalty / Samuel Francis
3. Is capital punishment an effective deterrent to crime?
Capital punishment is a deterrent / Paul H. Rubin
Executions deter felony murders / William Tucker
Capital punishment protects innocent lives / Jeff Jacoby
The death penalty is the ultimate deterrent / Neil Clark
Capital punishment is not a deterrent / John Bloom
Capital punishment exacerbates violence / Robert Grant
The theory that capital punishment deters crime is flawed / Ernest Partridge
4. Should capital punishment be reformed?
Capital punishment should be abolished / Progressive
Capital punishment should be reformed / Scott Turow
Capital punishment should be temporarily suspended / Russ Feingold
Capital punishment should be retained / Ernest van den Haag
Life imprisonment is referable to the death penalty / Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
The death penalty is preferable to life imprisonment / Gregory Kane
Postconviction DNA testing should be encouraged / Tim O'Brien
Postconviction DNA testing should not be encouraged / Peter Roff
Executions should be televised / George J. Bryjak
Executions should not be televised / Sally Peters.
Is capital punishment ethical?
Is capital punishment administered fairly?
Is capital punishment aa effective deterrent to crime?
Should capital punishment be abolished?