PHL 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Capital Punishment By Country, Psychopathy, Due Process
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Retention v abolitionism: weak retentionism is almost abolitionism, like only if he has been convicted of murder on two separate occasions. Merely for rape = unconstitutional: many forms of retentionism, retentionist arguments them. Deserving to die, and actually killing are two different: desert (retribution, justice): need to refine this, too crude proportionality. Crude: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, equal punishment. Some people deserve to die for what they did, heinous crimes. Doesn"t give you the right to kill things. May deserve to die, but doesn"t conclude that we have: kill him so he won"t kill again. Save the lives of the right to kill them. State must be able to pick these people out and kill them: social utility: benefits society. innocent people. Safer and secure society: not so much. Less than 1% of people who kill will kill again.
