Against Capital Punishment

Released on by Benjamin S. Yost
preview-18

  • Against Capital Punishment Book Detail

  • Author : Benjamin S. Yost
  • Release Date : 2019-02-13
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 297
  • ISBN 13 : 0190901179
  • File Size : 93,93 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Against Capital Punishment by Benjamin S. Yost PDF Summary

Book Description: The specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. So-called proceduralist arguments against the death penalty are attractive to death penalty abolitionists because they sidestep the controversies that bedevil moral critiques of execution. Proceduralists do not shoulder the burden of demonstrating that heinous murderers deserve a punishment less than death. However, proceduralist arguments often pay insufficient attention to the importance of punishment; many imply the highly contentious claim that no type of criminal sanction is legitimate. In Against Capital Punishment, Benjamin S. Yost revitalizes the core of proceduralism both by examining the connection between procedural injustice and the impermissibility of capital punishment and by offering a comprehensive argument of his own which confronts proceduralism's most significant shortcomings. Yost is the first author to develop and defend the irrevocability argument against capital punishment, demonstrating that the irremediability of execution renders capital punishment impermissible. His contention is not that the act of execution is immoral, but rather that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes precludes the just administration of the death penalty. Shoring up proceduralist arguments for the abolition of the death penalty, Against Capital Punishment carries with it implications not only for the continued use of the death penalty in the criminal justice system, but also for the structure and integrity of the system as a whole.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Against Capital Punishment books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Against Capital Punishment

Against Capital Punishment

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 5097 Views
DOWNLOAD

The specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. So-called proceduralist arguments against the death p

Debating the Death Penalty

Debating the Death Penalty

File Size : 66,66 MB
Total View : 6858 Views
DOWNLOAD

Experts on both side of the issue speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.

The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 7740 Views
DOWNLOAD

From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceed

Courting Death

Courting Death

File Size : 45,45 MB
Total View : 9606 Views
DOWNLOAD

Before constitutional regulation -- The Supreme Court steps in -- The invisibility of race in the constitutional revolution -- Between the Supreme Court and the