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... death , or because they fancy that they , too , are killing with justi- fication , analogous to the justified killing in- volved in capital punishment . If such evidence is sound , capital punishment can serve as a counter- preventive ...
... death , or because they fancy that they , too , are killing with justi- fication , analogous to the justified killing in- volved in capital punishment . If such evidence is sound , capital punishment can serve as a counter- preventive ...
Page 502
... death in a given ju- risdiction could just as well be decided in a neighboring jurisdiction on another day either as second - degree murder or as first - degree mur- der but without the death penalty . The factors that influence ...
... death in a given ju- risdiction could just as well be decided in a neighboring jurisdiction on another day either as second - degree murder or as first - degree mur- der but without the death penalty . The factors that influence ...
Page 503
... death penalty rarely confine them- selves to reliance on this principle of just retribu- tion and nothing else , since they rarely confine themselves to supporting the death penalty only for all murders . But retributive justice need ...
... death penalty rarely confine them- selves to reliance on this principle of just retribu- tion and nothing else , since they rarely confine themselves to supporting the death penalty only for all murders . But retributive justice need ...
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Socratic Wisdom 2 Bertrand Russell The Value of Philosophy Suggestions for Further Reading Part II Philosophy of Religion Introduction Can we pr... | 1 |
A Critique of the Cosmological Argument | 2 |
The Watch and the Watchmaker | 3 |
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