Against capital punishment / Benjamin S. Yost.

9780190901196 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

English

1 online resource.

HV8698 .Y67 2019

364.66

'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.

'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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access limited to authorized users.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 6, 2019).

Oxford scholarship online.

Print version: 9780190901165