Dan-Cohen on The (Im)morality of the Death Penalty

Monday, April 15, 2019

 

It is generally agreed that to be morally, and in the US, constitutionally, permissible, the death penalty must accord with human dignity. I argue that it does not. To this end, I sketch a conception of dignity, embedded in Kantian moral theory, which helps assess when violations of dignity take place, as well as appreciate the high moral stakes such violations involve.

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2019/04/dan-cohen-on-the-immorality-of-the-death-penalty.html

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