关于死刑的精神病学思考。

Psychiatric reflections on the death penalty.

作者信息

West Louis Jolyon

机构信息

Department of Psychiatry.

出版信息

Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1975 Jul;45(4):689-700. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1975.tb01195.x.

DOI:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1975.tb01195.x

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Capital punishment is outdated, immoral, wasteful, cruel, brutalizing, unfair, irrevocable, useless, dangerous, and obstructive to justice.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.

摘要

死刑过时、不道德、浪费、残忍、使人变得冷酷无情、不公平、不可挽回、无用、危险且阻碍司法公正。此外，精神病学观察表明，死刑通过对死囚的折磨引发疾病；它扭曲了医生从审判到监狱病房再到执行死刑的身份；而且，自相矛盾的是，它滋生的谋杀案比它威慑的还要多。