Kant
Kant believes to respect the humanity of the victim the crimes against them should be what.
What is duly punished?
This is the primary reason Van Den Haag believes the death penalty is justified, even without definitive proof of its effectiveness.
What is deterrence
What is Reiman's claim against the death penalty?
Death is a just punishment for murder, but, like torture it's too horrible to be used by civilized people.
These 2 things are what Glover believes would justify capital punishment.
What is deterrence and overall, less harmful special effects?
The argument that it's a better bet to risk the lives of murderers than innocents even if it does not act as a deterrent.
What is the Best Bet Argument?
Kant believes retributive justice to be grounded in 3 principals. Name one.
What is
autonomy, morality, or human dignity?
Van Den Haag compares the risk of wrongful executions to these unintended societal harms, which are accepted because of their overall benefits
What are traffic accidents
Name 1 of the 2 retributivist accounts of punishment.
What is Lex talionis/ proportional retributivist?
Name 2 of the 7 special effects that Glover cites.
What is extra suffering of the executed while awaiting death, extra suffering of criminal’s family and friends, Innocents unwittingly executed, effect upon hangman, judge, encourages undesirable qualities in citizenry, problem of arbitrariness in practice, contributes to a tradition of cruel and horrible punishment
This position on the death penalty believes that it is always absolutely wrong to take a life.
What is an absolutist?
Kant believes punishment should not be administered for its utilitarian benefits, but for this reason.
What is justice/ moral duty for the law.
Van Den Haag supports the death penalty as a morally appropriate punishment for severe crimes, aligning with this principle of justice often summarized as "eye for an eye"
What is retribution
Not the same as the crime, but proportional to it.
What is proportional retributivism?
Name 1 of the 2 ways Glover believes a defense on deterrence should be based.
What is statistical evidence/ intuitive arguments?
This view believes that the punishment must fit the crime.
What is the Kantian/Retributivist view?
How would Kant respond to the objection that "some killers may want to be put to death?"
Kant would argue that the punishment needs to fit the categorical imperative.
While acknowledging the racial and economic biases in the application of the death penalty, Van Den Haag argues this issue points to a need for this solution rather than abolition
What are system reforms
This is why Reiman believes that criminals are less likely to be deterred by death.
What is the nature of crime involves death, so why would the death penalty deter more than the threat of being shot by the police or another criminal?
Glover rejects this doctrine because he believes that we have equal responsibility in both scenarios.
What is the Acts and Omissions Doctrine?
Payback or a get what you give principle.
What is Lex talionis?
How does Kant respond to those that argue that Capital Punishment doesn't respect humanity?
Kant would argue that it most certainly respects humanity as it treats the individuals as ends and moral agents capable of rationality and reason.
Van Den Haag uses this statement to emphasize that a lack of definitive proof of deterrence does not negate the death penalty's potential crime
What is "The absence of certainty does not negate the potential of deterrence"
What position does Reiman's retributivism take on the death penalty?
Murderers deserve death, but the punishment is too primitive for a civilized society.
Glover believes that this is arguably a more effective deterrent than the death penalty.
What is life in prison?
We are not as responsible for deaths that we passively allow as we are for deaths that we actively cause.
What is the Acts and Omissions Doctrine?