"Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation" is a March 2001 document of Human Rights Watch that focuses on the execution of people
The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as
Since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by more than 60 percent, reversing a generation-long trend toward greater acceptance of capital punishment.
Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached