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Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1129-1156

Retribution's role

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    • Id. at 1062 n.4 ("[T]his Article's treatment of the key matter of the upper limit is in considerable conflict with that of Morris."). Compare id. at 1065 (arguing that "the offender forfeits immunity to criminal punishment in an amount" equal to that which "the offender has imposed upon society," and that "[a]ny penalty that is too severe to be countenanced under [this equivalence approach] is unjustly severe-however laudable its consequences"), with MORRIS, MADNESS, supra note 62, at 179 ("'[A] deserved punishment'. does not mean the infliction on the criminal offender of a pain precisely equivalent to that which he has inflicted on his victim; it means rather a 'not undeserved punishment which bears a proportional relationship in a hierarchy of punishments to the harm for which the criminal has been convicted.'").
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    • It is possible that the harm to the innocent would be greater because her innocence itself would make the punishment harder to bear. But this does not undermine the point The main reason we would rather punish the guilty than the innocent is not that the innocent might experience more disutility from the punishment, but rather that the innocent does not deserve to be punished.
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    • Id. (stating that retributivism has its "roots in vengeance, bloodlust, revenge, retaliation, and an eye for an eye")
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    • I have mentioned earlier that it might be acceptable to punish the innocent in extreme cases such as the need to save millions of lives. The implications of this sort of caveat are generally beyond the scope of this Article, but I note here that my sentence in the text is not meant to rule out punishment in such a hypothetical example. I do not think this means that utilitarianism supplies part of the reason the state has a right to punish, at least in the vast majority of the cases that actually arise
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