To Abolish or to Retain: Debating the Death Penalty in the United States

DOI

10.2991/mmetss-18.2018.112How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Death penalty, abolishing, Furman v. Georgia, religion, public opinions

Abstract

This article gives an overview of the movement to abolish death penalty around the world. The author recalls the history of the death penalty and talks the current status of the death penalty in the US. In order to discuss whether penalty should be abolished or not, the author shows the case of Furman v. Georgia which plays a transformative role in the abolishing death penalty debate, as well as some public opinions.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tianlan Wei
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TI  - To Abolish or to Retain: Debating the Death Penalty in the United States
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology, and Social Science (MMETSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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