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WHAT, IF ANYTHING, MAKES THE DEATH PENALTY UNJUSTIFIED?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2013

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Preface: Of course it is recognized that miscarriages of justice do occur, innocent people are wrongly punished, even executed. This can never be excused or justified. Never. But this is not the issue here. Rather, I am positing, for the sake of the inquiry, that the punishment imposed pertains to only those who are truly guilty of their crimes.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2013 

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