The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints

by Paul A. Winters (Editor)

A collection of articles debating the issues of capital punishment discusses whether it is legally and morally just or unjust, and how much of a safeguard it is to society

Genres: Crime

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Anthony Engel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great if you are looking for opposing viewpoints on the death penalty. It shows multiple ideas that many different people had on the topic. The book gives great information, the authors of each essay provide their sources where they got their information and they back up their statements. The table of contexts I think is very well put together it provides all the titles of the essays and their authors. It shows that each chapter has multiple different viewpoints on the topic. Every single essay has a different author none of the essays are by the same person. Each essay also provides great information, they also use studies they have done to prove a point. I think if you want to argue the death penalty and it's different opposing sides this would be a great book to use.

[Mickey · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book I guess was good. The author's purpose here was to help enhance your reading skills with stuff like bias and nonbias quizzes, but the authors of the articles inside of the book's goal was to persuade you into believing what they believed. The theme here was to get you to know your opponent's argument so you will fully understand your own. The style this book was more like an argument book so it was like you were reading a book where a never-ending argument was going on which is different than anything else I have ever read. Even though it wasn't really my boat for books it was good. Even though my score contradicts everything I've wrote about this is a book I heavily dislike but yet for the same reason I like it (this reasoning shouldn't ever apply but I guess it does)