Search results
Ernest van den Haag* In an average year about 20,000 homicides occur in the United States. Fewer than 300 convicted murderers are sentenced to death. But because no more than thirty murderers have been executed in any recent year, most convicts sentenced to death are likely to die of old age.'
The recent book, The Death Penalty: A Debate, in which van den Haag argues for the death penalty and John P. Conrad argues against, proves how difficult it is to mount a telling argument against capital punish-
Over the years, van den Haag took particular interest in the field of capital punishment and the death penalty. His book Punishing Criminals: Concerning a Very Old and Painful Question (1975) developed his reputation on being one of the foremost thinkers and proponents on the death penalty.
30 mar 2007 · Like so many of conservatism’s postwar “founding fathers,” van den Haag was a former radical and refugee from totalitarian Europe. Born in Holland and raised in Italy, he was a twenty-three-year-old Communist and law student at the University of Florence when Mussolini’s Fascist government imprisoned him in 1937.
punishment. If justice is not a purpose of penalties, injustice cannot be an ob- jection to the death penalty (or to any other); if it is, justice cannot be ruled out as an argument for any penalty. Consider the claim of injustice on its merits now.
15 maj 2013 · By Ernest Van Den Hagg, Published on 01/01/69
ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG Consider the claim of injustice on its merits now. A convicted man may be found to have been innocent; if he was executed, the penalty cannot be reversed. Except for fines, penalties never can be reversed. Time spent in prison cannot be re-turned. However a prison sentence may be re-
