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Jan 31, 2024 · The infliction of the death penalty is profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity, the fundamental right to life, and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, said UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk.
- A Killer Becomes A Cause
- Moralists Versus Pragmatists
- The Proportionality of Justice
- Retribution, Not Revenge
- Retribution as Reflection
- The Worth of Human Lives
- Affirming Life
Death penalty opponents immediately cited the gruesome nature of Medina's death to call once again for an end to capital punishment. "It was brutal, terrible," declared witness Michael Minerva. "It was a burning alive, literally." Minerva—a defense lawyer for a taxpayer-supported state agency that defends death row inmates—demanded that the governo...
Of course, that did not persuade opponents of capital punishment that putting Medina to death was right and just. They argued, in effect, that however heinous or cruel, his murder of Dorothy James should be irrelevant to the degree of punishment he might receive. He should not be punished in proportion to the harm he had caused an innocent woman; h...
Justice is a punitive response to a criminal that penalizes him in direct proportion to the harm he has done to actual individuals. Contrary to contemporary thinking, crimes are not offenses against an abstraction, such as "the state": they are offenses against individuals. Today, the crime victim is typically ignored in court; he or she is a mere ...
Critics of the death penalty—and of punishment in general—often denounce proportional punishment as arising from "vengeance," or some crude, vindictive notion of "an eye for an eye." For example, in a tract published by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a prominent anti-incarceration group, James Austin and John Irwin (himself a former...
I use the term "retribution" in the sense of "reflection." The basic aim of the criminal (such as Pedro Medina) is to forcibly gain something unearned and undeserved at the expense of someone else (such as Dorothy James). His actions impose undeserved negative consequences—harm and injury—upon the innocent victim. The fundamental strategy of moral ...
However, one charge by death penalty opponents is true: The moral case for capital punishment does indeed rest upon making a strong distinction about the relative worth of human lives. The concept of justice is incompatible with the view that all human lives are "intrinsically and equally valuable," regardless of the individuals' chosen moral behav...
We should take no joy in the execution of predators such as Pedro Medina. The taking of life is a symbol of the ultimate possible waste. It is a profound tragedy, which should be conducted with solemnity, dignity, and privacy. It should not become cause for public participation, celebration, or spectacle. And it should not involve the deliberate im...
May 20, 2023 · The death penalty is inhumane and violates the fundamental right to life. Physician involvement enables this continuing abuse of human rights and undermines the four pillars of medical ethics—beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice.
Oct 10, 2024 · There’s a widespread belief that death penalty brings justice to the families of victims. However, for anti-death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean, justice is fairness and giving people their due when a community or someone in a community has been hurt and needs healing.
Jan 26, 2024 · Majority rules. Of the countless arguments long rehearsed for and against the death penalty, one of the most common in the US is that the majority rules.
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Jul 31, 2012 · Those against capital punishment believe this method has serious moral flaws and should be abandoned. The first flaw is that it requires medical personnel being directly involved in killing ...
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Dec 27, 2022 · Most death penalty opponents endorse the right to use deadly force when necessary, in self-defense or defense of others, to stop an aggressor’s unjust threat of death or serious bodily injury (e.g., Paul 1995: §55). Except for pacifists, the right to life still permits defensive killing.
