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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 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.
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.
21 mar 2018 · Where innocent men have been sent to death row due to what looks like deliberate actions by law enforcement, the appropriate response is to charge those responsible with attempted murder (or murder, if the execution is carried out). In the US today, however, this does not happen. It is a disgrace.
23 sie 2021 · Amherst professor Austin Sarat critiques the conclusion of a study by Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College suggesting that the American public widely supports the death penalty.
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 ...
20 sty 2021 · Does your state or country allow the death penalty? Do you believe governments should be allowed to execute people who have been convicted of crimes?
