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1. • • The death penalty is contrary to human dignity, is incompatible with the right to life, and does not lead to justice.
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   Does the death penalty bring justice?

   • OHCHR calls for their immediate release. 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.

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   What is the moral defense of the death penalty?

   • The moral defense of the death penalty is the principle of justice. In the case of premeditated murder, capital punishment is the only just punishment: It is the only punishment roughly proportionate to the harm that has been done to the murder victim. Now, anyone who respects life is understandably uneasy about taking even the lives of killers.

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   Is the death penalty a legal issue?

   • 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. Mr. Rosen is the deputy attorney general. This month, for the first time in 17 years, the United States resumed carrying out death sentences for federal crimes.

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   Why is it important to analyse the death penalty?

   • The importance of analysing the death penalty and state-imposed executions is derived from their concerning the right to life, and their retaining wide-spread support throughout retentionist, abolitionist de facto, and abolitionist states worldwide.

   Secretive Symbolism? The Death Penalty, Executions, and Japan

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   Does the death penalty have a place in the present?

   • Saying that the death penalty has no place in the present is both a moral condemnation and a prediction of its disappearance, but the basis of such claims—that the death penalty is radically incongruous in this age—remains almost always not quite spelled out.

   Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the

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   Is the death penalty dead or Alive?

   • The answer to the “dead or alive” question may be: “both”. The entrenched and symbolic death penalty is bifurcated from the ordinary death penalty in judicial and political ways. In its subject matter there is a prominent targeting of political crimes rather than ordinary offenses.

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3. www.nytimes.com › federal-death-penaltyThe Death Penalty Can Ensure ‘Justice Is Being Done’

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   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.

4. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › fullSymbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When ...

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   Mar 20, 2023 · For some writers, a symbolic death penalty represents an equilibrium reached between death penalty proponents and opponents (Galliher & Galliher, 1997), a result of ‘seeking the morally optimal death penalty’ (Weisberg, 1996).

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6. www.ohchr.org › en › storiesDeath penalty does not lead to justice | OHCHR

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   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.

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   Jul 18, 2023 · In the conclusion, I suggest that it can be productive to view the global death penalty as bifurcated: it may indeed be dying as an ordinary law-enforcement tool, integrated in the criminal justice system, but as an extraordinary political symbol it remains relatively healthy.

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   Aug 26, 2020 · The importance of analysing the death penalty and state-imposed executions is derived from their concerning the right to life, and their retaining wide-spread support throughout retentionist, abolitionist de facto, and abolitionist states worldwide.

   • Author: Billy Holmes, Billy Holmes
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9. link.springer.com › chapter › 10The Symbolic Meaning of the Death Penalty | SpringerLink

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   Given these facts, it is clear that the main significance of the death penalty both to retentionists and to abolitionists is symbolic: The material effects of capital punishment, as far as society is concerned, are negligible.

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    The moral defense of the death penalty is the principle of justice. In the case of premeditated murder, capital punishment is the only just punishment : It is the only punishment roughly proportionate to the harm that has been done to the murder victim.