This course will offer an in-depth view of the moral debate surrounding the practice of capital punishment. We will view the debate historically and cross-culturally. We will pay close attention to the debate in the American context — how the debate has changed over time and how it has converged and diverged from the constitutional debate about the status of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.
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Steiker, Jordan M. 