In my first source "The death penalty", Roger Hood proposes a wide prospective of capital punishment worldwide. From Europe to Asia, from South Africa to the United States, a worldwide review of the death penalty has been carried out. The author proposes inquires about the death penalty issues in the major countries concerned with many sources relating to the period up to the end of 1995. Hood points out the fact that many of those countries offer no statistics of death sentences or executions. However, he does offer an important fact, which is "61 per cent of abolitionists countries replied to the United Nation's fifth survey for 19989-1993, but only 1

This book does not offer a debate in the sense that it is not about is right or wrong or who scores the most points between Pojman and Reiman. It rather offers a debate where each author offers his view on the issue. We can identify the considerations that weigh for and against the death penalty and maybe change our mind or in the contrary stick with the same opinion. In either case we have our opinion and the opposite side represented in this book.

9 per cent of retentionist states" (2). He further says that the countries that apply capital punishment did not respond to that fifth survey. Overall all countries prefer not to be honest, and clear about their views and actions taken on capital punishment.

Although his edition wants to be impartial, I chose to focus on the opposers' side because he offers a big support, which is the laws, that seems to be against killing. In this case, it seems that the capital punishment is contradictory, for clearly the law prohibits killing.

Many people in the United States share the Pope's views on Capital Punishment. They could relater to the Pope's views and opinions. This is clearly a one sided book focusing on the preservation of life, thus against capital punishment. This is one of the argumentations that the abolitionists of the death penalty could use against the followers of the capital punishment.

Who holds the right answer? That is indeed the question that we must all ask about the rights or wrongs of the death penalty. No one really knows. I, myself, have been asking that question for a long time. Of all the five books that I have examined so far, each author has a different view on the debate, and they all seem to have reasonable and logical argumentations for their opinions. Numerous issues, and perspectives are, indeed, raised on those books. Some people think that the capital punishment is against morality and religion. Others argue that capital punishment is not effective; it does not solve the problem of

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