Death Is Different: Studies in the Morality, Law, and Politics of Capital Punishment

by Hugo Bedau

A book that speaks out against the death penalty used as a source of discussion in philosophy and law classes.

Hardcover

First published June 30, 1987

About the author

Hugo Adam Bedau was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty scholar" by Stuart Taylor Jr., who has quoted Bedau as saying "I'll let the criminal justice system execute all the McVeighs they can capture, provided they'd sentence to prison all the people who are not like Timothy McVeigh."