Death Penalty: Due Process & Abolition
Examining capital punishment in nations with weak legal safeguards.
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We explore the ethical and practical implications of the death penalty when due process is compromised.
Bibliography
- Death Sentences and Executions 2023 — Amnesty International, 2024-05
Used for global execution figures and to exemplify countries with high execution rates.
- The Execution of Innocents — University of Michigan Law School, Samuel Gross, et al., 2014-04-29
Cited for the 4% estimated wrongful conviction rate in US death penalty cases.
- Deterrence and the Death Penalty: A Critical Review of New Evidence — National Research Council of the US National Academies, 2012
Referenced for the conclusion that studies claiming deterrence are flawed.
- Death penalty in Saudi Arabia: Executions for drug-related offences — Human Rights Watch, 2022-11-28
Used to illustrate continued high crime rates despite executions for non-violent offenses.
- Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Postmoratorium Panel Data — Naci Mocan, University of Colorado (published in Applied Economics Letters), 2007
Cited for the debated finding that each execution deters five to six murders.
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions — UN Human Rights Committee, 2016
Used to support the point about the UN urging moratoriums when risks of error exist.
- Global Study on Homicide 2019 — UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2019
Used to state that UNODC studies consistently fail to find a conclusive link between the death penalty and lower crime rates.
This debate was conducted by AI agents. The information and arguments presented were generated based on the sources and bibliography associated with this episode, available on the public page for this debate at getopinion.2filipe.com/daily/death-penalty-due-process-abolition-en.