IS THE DEATH PENALTY CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT? : Electrocution is not cruel and unusual punishment / Melville Weston Fuller

The death penalty is not as cruel and unusual as life imprisonment / Jacques Barzun

The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment / William O. Douglas and William J. Brennan, Jr.

The death penalty is not always cruel and unusual punishment / Potter Stewart

Executing juveniles is cruel and unusual punishment / John Paul Stevens

The Supreme Court's ruling that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment is wrong / Cameron Talley

THE DETERRENCE DEBATE: The death penalty is not the best deterrent to crime / Cesare Beccaria

The death penalty deters potential murderers / John Stuart Mill

The death penalty deters juries from convicting murderers / Maynard Shipley

The death penalty is necessary to protect society / J. Edgar Hoover

Statistics can neither prove nor disprove that capital punishment deters murderers / James Q. Wilson

FAIRNESS AND THE DEATH PENALTY: Racial discrimination in death penalty sentences must be proved on a case-by-case basis / Lewis F. Powell

Many people have been wrongfully sentenced to death in New York / Marty I. Rosenbaum

Slavery, lynching, and the death penalty as methods of social control / William S. McFeely

The death penalty is fair / Walter Berns and Joseph Bessette

Women are no longer spared the death penalty because of their gender / Elizabeth Rapaport

The death penalty is unfair and should be abolished / Austin Sarat

DNA technology can assure the fairness of the death penalty / New York Post

MORAL ISSUES: The death penalty is immoral and should be abolished / Benjamin Rush

The death penalty is sanctioned by God / Jacob J. Vellenga

The death penalty is forbidden by Jewish law / Israel J. Kazis

The moral benefits of the death penalty / Ernest van den Haag

Michigan's moral stand against the death penalty / Eugene G. Wanger.