Against capital punishment
'Against Capital Punishment' offers an innovative proceduralist argument against the death penalty. Worries about procedural injustice animate many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. Philosophers and legal theorists are attracted to procedural abolitionism because it s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2019, 2019
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online / Oxford scholarship online
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 'Against Capital Punishment' offers an innovative proceduralist argument against the death penalty. Worries about procedural injustice animate many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. Philosophers and legal theorists are attracted to procedural abolitionism because it sidesteps controversies over whether murderers deserve death, holding out a promise of gaining rational purchase among death penalty retentionists. Following in this path, the text remains agnostic on the substantive immorality of execution; in fact, it takes pains to reconstruct the best arguments for capital punishment and presumes the appropriateness of execution in limited cases |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780190901196 |