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Sep 1, 2016 · Article PDF Available. The Death Penalty. September 2016. Authors: Giulio Carlo Venturi. University of Padova. References (19) Abstract. Capital punishment, also known as death penalty,...
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brief overview of the underpinnings of the death penalty. (The death penalty is firmly grounded in many traditional rationales for punishment, a fact that may explain why death penalty abolitionists have made so little progress in challenging it head on.) The second is to examine the new wave of administrative challenges to the death penalty.
This paper explores the philosophical arguments for and against the death penalty, focusing on the problem of justifying it to the condemned convict. It also identifies four kinds of uncertainties that challenge the current debate, such as harm, blame, rights, and causal consequences.
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“Can we expect a decent society if the state is allowed to kill its own people?” — Coretta Scott King “The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is: ‘Do we deserve to kill?’” — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption “Capita...
“The State is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire.” — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, The Bet “Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary impos...
“True justice is restorative. It heals wounds. The death penalty only creates new wounds.” — Shane Claiborne, in a tweet “I can’t accept the judgment that killers need to be killed, a practice that merely perpetuates the cycle of violence.” — Bernice King “The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of...
“I learned the most important lesson of my life… I didn’t have to see somebody else die in order to bring healing.” — Bill Pelke, who lost his grandmother to murder by a group of teenagers “When Jeffrey was murdered, I wanted the men who killed him dead. I led the fight to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts in 1997. But time passes, and y...
“But secondly you say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.” ― Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man “The state should not be killing people. Not through militarism. Not by police. Not because of ICE. Not by medical negligence. And not by de...
Dec 31, 2019 · While many nations around the world have abolished the death penalty as a form of punishment, some nations still emphasize its importance as a valid means for punishing specific types of...
respondents to choose between the death penalty, natural life or 'a long prison sentence' as possible sentences for 'murder of an adult stranger' and over four-fifths of the sample endorsed the death penalty or natural life (Ipsos-MORI 2000).
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This monograph by Julian B. Knowles QC traces the history and impact of capital punishment in the UK from the Bloody Code to the 1965 Act. It examines the role of Parliament, public opinion, campaigning organisations, and individual cases in the abolition process.
