A retributivist argument against capital punishment

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 317-333

  McDermott, Daniel ^a  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33746154336     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00097     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153 (1976);
2. Furman v. Georgia, 408 U. S. 238 (1972).
3. see Williams v. Illinois, 399 U. S. 235 (1970);
4. U. S. v. Brown, 381 U. S. 437 (1965);
5. U. S. v. Barnett, 376 U. S. 681 (1964);
6. and Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U. S. 144 (1963).
7. McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U. S. 279 (1987).
8. Ernest van den Haag, "The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense", Harvard Law Review 99(1986):1662-69.
9. See Michael Moore, "The Moral Worth of Retribution", in Punishment and Rehabilitation, ed. Jeffrie G. Murphy (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1995), 94-96
10. Herbert Morris, "Persons and Punishment", Monist 52(October 1968):478.
11. See G. W. Hegel, Philosophy of Right, ed. T. M. Knox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), 69-70.
12. van den Haag, "The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense", 1663.
13. Stephen Nathanson, "Does It Matter If the Death Penalty Is Arbitrarily Administered?" Philosophy and Public Affairs 14(Spring 1985):157.
14. Ernest van den Haag, "Refuting Reiman and Nathanson", Philosophy and Public Affairs 14(Spring 1985):174-75.
15. Jeffrie G. Murphy, "A Paradox in Locke's Theory of Natural Rights", Dialogue 8(September 1967):261.
16. For similar arguments, see also Antony Flew, "The Justification of Punishment", Philosophy 29(October 1954):291-307;
17. S. I. Benn and R. S. Peters, Social Principles and the Democratic State (London: Ruskin House, 1959), chap. 8;
18. and H. L. A. Hart, "Prolegomenon to the Principles of Punishment", in Punishment and Responsibility (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968): 1-27.
19. See John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960), bk. II, §§ 7-13.
20. See Charles Black, Capital Punishment: The Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981).
21. Jeffrie G. Murphy and Jean Hampton, Forgiveness and Mercy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 171.
22. See also Godfrey v. Georgia, 446 U. S. 420, 427 (1980)
23. California v. Ramos, 463 U. S. 992, 999 (1983)
24. and Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U. S. 320, 343 (1985).