Assisted Suicide and the Death Penalty

Assisted Suicide and the Death Penalty: Examining Attitudes towards State Sanctioned Death

In this study, we test Durkheim’s (1897) conceptualization of suicide as a pattern of suicidal behavior caused by sociological conditions and its effects on attitudes towards state sanctioned death through examining support for assisted suicide and the death penalty. Using secondary-data and quantitative analytical methods, we empirically examine personal attitudes towards assisted suicide for ...

Eliminating the death penalty from drug crimes: requirements and Prohibitions

The Ideaof the capability of the death penalty to deal with drug-related crimes is, in essence, a guarantor of the goal of safeguarding human capital and social values. Certainly, Use of the death penalty can be accepted in response to some of the narcotics crimes. But there are many other crimes that follow the death penalty, but they can be categorically opposed and unsuccessful. Execution is...

Physicians and the death penalty.

Murder and the Death Penalty

Poverty and the Death Penalty

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive o...