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The Two Different Cases Regarding Capital Punishment
Thesis : In principle a case can be made on moral grounds both supporting
and opposing capital punishment.
Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of
a moral community. This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The
second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community.
This leads to a rejection of capital punishment.
JUSTICE AND THE NATURE OF MORAL COMMUNITY
A central principal of a just society is that every person has an equal
right to "life, liberity, and happiness." Within that, an....
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