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The ethics of capital punishment : a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences / Matthew H. Kramer.
LIBRA HV8694 .K73 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, Matthew H., 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Capital punishment.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 353 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Deterrence through capital punishment
- Death and retribution
- Death as incapacitation
- Death as a means of denunciation
- The purgative rationale for capital punishment
- The death penalty in operation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-339) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199642182
- 0199642184
- OCLC:
- 751732460
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