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Capital punishment has long engendered considerable debate about both its morality and its effect on criminal behaviour. Contemporary arguments for and against capital punishment fall under three general headings: moral, utilitarian, and practical.
The central philosophic question about capital punishment is one of moral justification: on what grounds, if any, is the state’s deliberate killing of identified offenders a morally justifiable response to voluntary criminal conduct, even the most serious of crimes, such as murder?
1 de ago. de 2015 · If you are a defender of deterrence, you must answer two questions about capital punishment before determining where you stand.
1 de abr. de 2002 · Capital punishment plays a contradictory, emotional role in American social and political culture. In particular, the relationship between this punishment and variously situated social actors suggests a complexity to contemporary penality that is not fully addressed by macro-level examinations of state punishment.
20 de ene. de 2021 · The United States Constitution expressly contemplates “capital” crimes, and Congress has authorized the death penalty for serious federal offenses since President George Washington signed the...
For Capital Punishment . Walter Berns . For years intellectuals have denounced the death penalty as cruel and unusual pun¬ ishment, a vestige of uncivilized times, a mockery of human dignity and a violation of human rights. If it remains an issue in our politics today, this is primarily because the majority of people have stubbornly
Shortcomings in the administration of capital punishment, which Chapter 7 will explore at length, can undermine the moral legitimacy of executions of criminals whose misdeeds are sufficiently heinous to be covered by this book's purgative rationale.
