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Title: America’s Deadliest Penalty: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States.
Authors: Levine, Adina
Markovitz, Shanee
Yeshiva University, degree granting institution.
Keywords: Senior honors thesis
capital punishment
Issue Date: 6-May-2020
Publisher: New York, NY. Stern College for Women. Yeshiva University.
Citation: Markovitz, Shanee. America’s Deadliest Penalty: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States. Presented to the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Completion of the Program. NY: Stern College for Women. Yeshiva University, May 6, 2020. Professor Adina Levine, Political Science
Abstract: In the United States of America, the controversy surrounding capital punishment spans across every state as well as more than 100 years of debate. Also referred to as the death penalty2, capital punishment includes “the practice of killing people as punishment for serious crimes,” 3 according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. While many other Western societies have abolished capital punishment from their legal systems4 either formally or in practice, the United States has yet to abandon this institution. However, the United States Supreme Court steadily limits the death penalty. ====== This paper includes a survey of twenty-five cases pertaining to capital punishment5. I begin by exploring the history of the death penalty. In Section II, I introduce the legal texts central to the death penalty debate, the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, to make cases in this paper easier to understand within a broader constitutional context. (from Introduction)
Description: Senior honors thesis. Opt-out. For access, contact: yair@yu.edu
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/5632
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