Thoughts on the Death Penalty
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74
1845
English
- Preface
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 1
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 2
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 3
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 4
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 5
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 6
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 7
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 8
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 9
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 10
- Ch 1: Expediency, Part 11
- Ch 2: Justice, Part 1
- Ch 2: Justice, Part 2
- Ch 3: Sacred Scriptures, Part 1
- Ch 3: Sacred Scriptures, Part 2
- Ch 3: Sacred Scriptures, Part 3
This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including historical, philosophical and biblical arguments. It is broken into 3 chapters: Expediency, Justice, and Sacred Scriptures (although it has Scripture references peppered throughout). Burleigh frequently references and argues against George B. Cheever, a prominent death penalty advocate of the time.
"If it shall thus be the means of helping on in a humble way the progress of that humane reform whose principles it advocates; and of hastening, however little, the coming of that time, when the penal statutes of a "christian" and "civilized people," shall have ceased to be written in blood, I shall be richly repaid for the time and labor spent upon this task." (Summary by TriciaG and from the preface)
"If it shall thus be the means of helping on in a humble way the progress of that humane reform whose principles it advocates; and of hastening, however little, the coming of that time, when the penal statutes of a "christian" and "civilized people," shall have ceased to be written in blood, I shall be richly repaid for the time and labor spent upon this task." (Summary by TriciaG and from the preface)
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