01517nam a2200265 4500 373440 373440 20080114u y0pory50 ba eng The pros and cons of life without parole Catherine Appleton, Bent Grover Resumo inserto no próprio artigo. The question of how societies should respond to their most serious crimes if not the death penalty is 'perhaps the oldest of all the issues raised by the two-century struggle in western civilization to end the death penalty' (Bedau, 1990: 481). In this article we draw attention to the rapid and extraordinary increase in the use of 'life imprisonment without parole' in the United States. We aim to critically asses the main arguments put forward by supporters of whole life imprisonment as a punishment provided by law to replace the death penalty and argue against life-long detention as the ultimate sanction. Oxford July 2007 Vol. 47, n. 4 British Journal of Criminology (The) 0007-0955 p. 597-615 CRIME VIOLENTO SANÇÃO PENAL PENA DE MORTE LIBERDADE CONDICIONAL ESTADOS UNIDOS APPLETON Catherine GROVER Bent 0 PJ_28239_000000000000000 2022-06-06 401221 PJ PJ PJ28239 2022-06-06 0 AP