Two distinguished social and political philosophers take opposing
positions in this highly engaging work. Louis P. Pojman justifies
the practice of execution by appealing to the principle of
retribution: we deserve to be rewarded and punished according to
the virtue or viciousness of our actions. He asserts that the death
penalty does deter some potential murderers and that we risk the
lives of innocent people who might otherwise live if we refuse to
execute those deserving that punishment. Jeffrey Reiman argues that
although the death penalty is a just punishment for murder, we are
not morally obliged to execute murderers. Since we lack conclusive
evidence that executing murderers is an effective deterrent and
because we can foster the advance of civilization by demonstrating
our intolerance for cruelty in our unwillingness to kill those who
kill others, Reiman concludes that it is good in principle to avoid
the death penalty, and bad in practice to impose it.
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