Citation

West LJ. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1975; 45(4): 689-700.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1180348

Abstract

Capital punishment is outdated, immoral, wasteful, cruel, brutalizing, unfair, irrevocable, useless, dangerous, and obstructive to justice. In addition, psychiatric observations reveal that it generates disease through the torture of death row; it perverts the identity of physicians from trials to prison wards to executions; and, paradoxically, it breeds more murder than it deters.

Language: en