Virtual Book Club: January 2024
Thu, Jan 25
|Virtual Book Club: January 2024
Join us for a discussion of the book "Against the Death Penalty" by retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer!
Time & Location
Jan 25, 2024, 7:00 PM EST – Jan 26, 2024, 8:00 PM EST
Virtual Book Club: January 2024
Guests
About the event
Get mobilized with SCAD and the SC Christian Action Council with our Virtual Book Club! Our January selection is Against the Death Penalty by retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
Bring your favorite beverage as we discuss Against the Death Penalty. You are not required to read the book for the event and are encourage dto purchase the book at your local bookseller or borrow it from your local library!
Book Summary
Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen G. Breyer argues that it does: that it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently, and thus violates the ban on “cruel and unusual punishments” specified by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
“Today’s administration of the death penalty,” Breyer writes, “involves three fundamental constitutional defects: (1) serious unreliability, (2) arbitrariness in application, and (3) unconscionably long delays that undermine the death penalty’s penological purpose.…