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Jan 9, 2023 · In this article, we’ll be taking a look at some powerful quotes from individuals who are against the death penalty — including activists, abolitionists, political leaders, and the families of victims.
Jul 18, 2023 · Death penalty laws are a potent means to reassert sovereignty when it is threatened, and invoking it regularly in relation to “foreigners” but not for citizens can be a useful symbolic mechanism in this regard (Hoyle et al., 2023).
- Ron Dudai
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.
Jul 27, 2020 · A top Justice Department official says for many Americans the death penalty is a difficult issue on moral, religious and policy grounds. But as a legal issue, it is straightforward.
Dec 27, 2022 · This article focuses on establishing the internal consistency of the right-to-life argument to abolish the death penalty. As such, it does not purport to address all potential objections to the right-to-life argument.
Feb 14, 2023 · For that and other reasons, including declining crime rates, there has been a dramatic decline in public support for the death penalty over the past 20 years. Though the 2021 Gallup poll found that 54% of respondents continued to support it, that is the lowest number in the annual poll since 1972.
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This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it?