The Capital Punishment Controversy

Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, Murder

Homicide and Capital Punishment

Punishment Schedules for Capital Flight

W HAT are appropriate penalties to discourage capital flight? Economic punishments can serve as effective deterrents for economic crimes but the penalties themselves are often costly to impose and enforce. Good public policy must take these costs into account in addition to the effectiveness of punishment schemes. In order to construct a deterrent to economically motivated behaviour, the enviro...

Neuroimaging and the “ Complexity ” of Capital Punishment

T his question, asked by Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware at the hearing considering the nomination of John G. Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States, illustrates the extent to which cognitive neuroscience —increasingly augmented by the growing powers of neuroimaging—has captured the imagination of those who make, enforce, interpret, and study the law. Judges, both state and federal, ...

Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder?

Ethical, philosophical and religious values are central to the continuing controversy over capital punishment. Nevertheless, factual evidence can and should inform policy making. The evidence for capital punishment as an uniquely effective deterrent to murder is especially important, since deterrence is the only major pragmatic argument on the pro-death penalty side.1 The purpose of this paper ...