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3Justice Brennan, in his concurring opinion in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U. S. 238,270 (1972) ;and Hugo Adam Bedau," the Eighth Amendment, Dignity, and the Death Penalty,"in The Constitution of Rights: Human Dignity and American Values, ed. Michael Myer and William Parent (Ithaca: Comell University Press, 1992).
4George Kateb, the Inner Ocean (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), 192.
6Franklin E. Zimring, and Gordon Hawkins. 1986. Capital Punishment and the American Agenda. New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 12.
7Amnesty International List of Abolitionist and Retentionist Countries (April 1980, June 1985, September 1990, December1995, and June 2001 ).
8James B. Christoph,1962. Capital Punishment and British Pohtics: the British Movement to Abolish the Death Penalty 1945- 1957. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Chap. 3.
9Royal Commission on Capital Punishment. 1953. Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1945 - 1953 Report. London Her Majesty's Stationery Office, P. iii.
10Royal Commission on Capital Punishment. 1953. Royal Commission on Capital Punishment 1945 - 1953 Report. London Her Majesty's Stationery Office, p. 212.
