PHL 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Liberal Democracy, Whistle Rymes, Due Process
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Why do so many states continue to have it: if the american people knew what we know, then they wouldn"t want to kill people. If they knew if wouldn"t do any good, then they wouldn"t want it. Krecz doesn"t know how he could know this: primoratz rejects marshalls dissent. Could agree that cp may not deter any more than life imprisonment, but we should still have it: the consequences of a punishment are irrelevant. It is the offense that givs us the right to punish someone: duh, this is a necessary condition to punish someone, the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime. Supreme court has said yes, in the cases of some murder. He goes further, and says murder: theistic argument: made in the image of god, life is most precious gift, when someone is murdered, everything it taken away from that person.
