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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.
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 · 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. And the fact is that errors, accidental and deliberate, means that anyone concerned about the individual’s rights should have grave concerns about the death ...
This “whitewashing” of the death penalty, along with the restraint reflected in elaborate legal standards, rights to appeal, and dispassionate execution methods like lethal injection, helped distinguish the capital process from lynchings, or the holocaust.
27 gru 2022 · By developing and defending the obligation to use nonlethal incapacitation (ONI), this article offers a novel explanation for why the death penalty fails to qualify as justified defensive killing. ONI places the imminence requirement on the state in its efforts to prevent violence by prisoners.
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.
9 lis 2015 · Dr. Ron Paul, leader of the libertarian movement and former Congressman, favors the elimination of the death penalty. He argues from both a moral and economic, or pragmatic, perspective against executions. The present article takes issue with his stance and defends the killing of convicted murderers, with some caveats.
