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Justifying Capital Punishment in Principle and in Practice: Empirical Evidence of Distortion in Application

Vol: 81, Issue: 2
2002
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I. Introduction . . . . . 806II. Judicial Opinions: Inappropriate Application . . . . . 808A. Justice Blackmun in Callins . . . . . 808B. The Roots in Furman and the 1976 Cases . . . . . 809C. Principle and Practice . . . . . 811D. Empirical Evidence . . . . . 814III. CP as Constitutional or Just Only If Applied Precisely . . . . . 815A. The Initial Argument . . . . . 815B. CP Kills People . . . . . 817IV. Implicit Appeals to the Premise that CP Is Unjust in Principle . . . . . 820A. Discrimination in CP and in Education . . . . . 820B. 'We Shouldn't Be Doing That Anyway' . . . . . 822C. Protecting the Victims of Illegitimate Discrimination . . . . . 8241. Convicted Murderers as the Victims of Discrimination . . . . . 8252. Justice and Mercy . . . . . 8293. Murder Victims and Survivors as the Victims of Discrimination . . . . . 830V. Distortions in Practice as Undermining the Justification in Principle . . . . . 833A. Consequentialist Justification . . . . . 833B. Deontic Justification . . . . . 835C. Common Pattern of Interpretation . . . . . 837VI. Conclusion . . . . . 837

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