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By
David Anderson
In the year 1998 a book which defends the Death Penalty was published in Sweden by the author David Anderson. In the year 2001 that book were published in English on this website in a revised and improved form. Updates are done as needed.
Introduction
The Death Penalty in the USA and in the world
Death Penalty for the following crimes
17 arguments for the Death Penalty
Answers to the arguments against the Death Penalty
Miscellaneous contributions
The Death Penalty and the Bible
The "right to life" and Death Penalty
Reformed criminal policy
© David Anderson 1998, 2002
George W. Bush, the president of the USA: "I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives."
John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General, about a terrorist for his role in the September 11th attacks: "We remain committed not only to carrying out justice in this case but also to ensuring that the rights of the victims are fully protected ... The United States of America is a sovereign nation whose representatives in the United States Congress have chosen to mark the seriousness of certain crimes indelibly by indicating that .. those crimes should be death- eligible in certain circumstances ... We understand that when the United States Congress speaks, they speak the voice of the people of this country, and it's clear that America is so concerned about the safety and security of its citizens that certain crimes against the people of this country have been designated as death-eligible by the Congress of the United States, signed into law by presidents." Source
Many Japanese support the Capital Punishment
76% of the Englishmen support the death penalty, 19% are against.
Valuable texts about the Death Penalty:
Click here and visit a website with a lot of facts, information and news about the Capital Punishment.
Click here and read why The United States Supreme Court approve the Capital Punishment.
Click here and read an article by Wesley Lowe where he answers some cliched argument against the Capital Punishment.
A new big investigation give support for the opinion of strong deterrent effect in the capital punishment, see Chapter 4 in the book.
The U.S. Department of Justice have now in two reports (Sept 2000 and June 2001) shown that there is no occurrence of racial or ethnic bias in the federal death penalty system. The Attorney General John Ashcroft about these reports: "The Reno study concluded, and our analysis has confirmed, that black and Hispanic defendants were less likely at each stage of the Department's review process to be subjected to the death penalty than White defendants." Click here to read the latest very readable report. And here is Ashcrofts comments on this report in full.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks out
Around 100 people found innocent and released from death row in USA and innocent being executed? Have you also heard of that? Read here for a critique of that by Dudley Sharp.
Here you can read the philosopher Immanuel Kant argue.
Two voices about the execution of Timothy Mc Veigh
A Summary of the Seventeen Arguments for the Death Penalty can be read here.
"There is something within us that instinctively says that man has such a value, dignity and greatness that one who murders does not deserve to live. This natural intuition of the heart is something we need to confirm and cherish." From Chapter 2
www.yesdeathpenalty.com