Essay Archive - Capital Punishment: Does the End Justify the Means?
Capital Punishment: Does the End Justify the Means?
If... he has committed murder, he must die. In this case, there is no
substitute that will satisfy the legal requirements of legal justice.There is no
sameness of kind between death and remaining alive even under the most miserable
conditions, and consequently there is no equality between crime and the
retribution unless the criminal is judicially condemned and put to death."
Immanuel Kant.
About 2000 men, women, and teenagers currently wait on America's "Death
Row." Their time grows shorter as ....
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