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24 paź 2013 · Government’s abysmal track record in administering the death penalty is reason enough to reject the practice. But what does libertarian theory say about the death penalty? After surveying how the death penalty fails as a policy, we tackle this deeper question.
15 sie 2008 · The issue of capital punishment divides libertarians just as it does other Americans. Debates among libertarians and others generally fall into two areas: the abstract question of whether the state may ever legitimately puts its citizens to death, and the more specific question of whether capital punishment is just and fitting as it is actually ...
Indeed, recent public opinion polls show a wide margin of support for the death penalty. But human rights advocates and civil libertarians continue to decry the immorality of state-sanctioned killing in the U.S., the only western industrialized country that continues to use the death penalty.
8 sie 2017 · In fact, American states that still have the death penalty have, on average, a 25% higher homicide rate than states that do not have such a punishment (“Deterrence: States Without the Death Penalty Have Had Consistently Lower Murder Rates”).
21 mar 2018 · This all leads to one conclusion: capital punishment is a dangerous tool in the hands of the state. The government should never have the power over life and death. Libertarians can advocate capital punishment in principle, for the crime of murder only and exclusively if the victim’s heirs ask for it. But justice is supposed to be blind and fair.
15 sty 2020 · Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, who were both fans of Beccaria’s work, advocated for limiting the death penalty to treason and murder. At the same time, Benjamin Rush argued for incarceration as opposed to execution, all inspired by Beccaria.
Courts must have the option of imposing the death penalty in capital murder cases and other instances of heinous crime, while federal review of those sentences should be streamlined to focus on claims of innocence and to prevent delaying tactics by defense attorneys.
