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24 paź 2013 · Other than subsidizing attorneys and bureaucrats, do our tax dollars accomplish anything through this policy? There is no evidence that the death penalty makes us safer. States with the death penalty have higher murder rates on average than states without it.
20 lip 2023 · One argument for the death penalty is that the usual alternative—life in prison without possibility of parole—imposes a financial burden on taxpayers (about $60,000-$70,000 per death row inmate...
15 sie 2008 · Some libertarians view capital punishment as an inherent abuse of state power. They argue that the execution of prisoners is never necessary to protect the public because the state can instead incapacitate them by imprisonment, for life if necessary. The use of capital punishment is therefore an overreach.
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.
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.
Respecting life and honoring the indelible humanity of the citizenry are fundamental first principles upon which the liberal state was founded. The Death Penalty is Inconstant with Liberal Values
