The ethics of capital punishment: a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences
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Contents
Preface
v
1.
Introduction
ι
ι
.
ι
The limits of the enquiry I
1.2
A matter of justification
3
1.2.1
A first caveat
S
1.2.2
A second caveat
6
1.3
A pithy conspectus
8
1.3.1
Chapter
2:
Deterrence-oriented theories
8
1.3.2
Chapter
3:
Retributivism
10
1.3.3
Chapter
4:
The incapacitative rationale
11
1.3.4
Chapter y. The denunciatory conception
12
1.3.5
Chapter d: The purgative rationale
14
1.3.6
Chapter
7:
Problems of administration
16
2.
Deterrence through Capital Punishment
19
2.1
The deterrence-oriented rationale expounded
20
2.2
Simplistic strictures
23
2.2.1
A misjudged recourse to Rawls
24
2.2.
i.i Donnelly's first line of reasoning: the matter of slavery
24
2.2.1.2
Donnelly's second line of reasoning: an untenable asymmetry
25
2.2.1.3
Donnelly's third line of reasoning: public order
26
2.2.1.4
Some further reflections
27
2.2.2
Using people as means
29
2.3
Empirical doubts
30
2.3.1
The meagerness of the evidence
31
2.3.2
General misgivings
33
2.3.2.1
Prospects versus certainties
34
2.3.2.2
Beyond deliberation
34
2.3.2.3
Brutalization
36
2.4
The moral untenability of the deterrence-oriented rationale
38
2.4.1
The manner of use
39
2.4.1.1
Blocking the analogy?
40
2.4.1.2
Help from an unexpected quarter?
42
2.4.2
No limits
44
2.4.2.1
The massacre of the innocents
45
2.4.2.1.1
Ineffective dissimulation?
45
2.4.2.1.2
A retributivistk side-constraint?
49
2.4.2.1.3
Justifiable executions of innocents?
53
2.4.2.2
Types of punishments
5g
VIU
CONTENTS
2.4.2.2.1
Proportionality
59
2.4.2.2.2
Utilitarianism
6°
2.4.2.2.3
Retributivism to the rescue? f>5
2.4.2.2.4
Sunstein and Vermeule on analogies
<Í6
2.5
A pithy conclusion
67
3.
Death and Retribution 69
3.1
Some key themes 71
3.1.1
Desert and moral responsibility 72
3.1.2
Human equality 72
3.1.3
Commensurateness, proportionality, and lex talionis
74
3.1.3.1
Commensurateness
74
3.1.3.2
Proportionality
74
3.1.3.3
hex talionis
77
3.1.4
Punishment as communication
78
3.2
Versions of retributivism
°°
3.2.1
Desert-focused retributivism
80
3.2.1.1
Freedom as the unjust gain?
81
3.2.1.2
The price of a licence
85
3.2.1.2.1
A first query
85
3.2.1.2.2
Asecondquery
86
3.2.1.2.3
A third query
88
3.2.1.2.4
A fourth query
9°
3.2.1.3
Self-indulgence 92
3.2.1.3.1
A manifestly unsustainable version of the thesis 92
3.2.1.3.2
A tenable version of the thesis
93
3.2.1.3.3
Some qualifications
9^
3.2.2
Vindicatory retributivism
97
3.2.2.1
Retribution is not revenge
98
3.2.2.2
The communicative dimension
99
3.2.2.3
A first objection to the communicative dimension
of vindicatory retributivism
Ю'
3.2.2.4
A second objection to the communicative dimension of
vindicatory retributivism
'02
3.3
Does retributivism disallow capital punishment?
104
3.3.1
Contrition precluded? I05
3.3.1.1
A first rejoinder by
Markel l°7
3.3.1.2
The time of the punishment
108
3.3.1.3
Post-punitive opportunities for reform 109
3.3.2
Human dignity revisited
40
3.3.2.1
The exploitation of pain
П2
3.3.2.2
The death penalty and moral responsibility
113
3.4
Can retributivism justify capital punishment?
115
3.4.1
The views of retributivists n6
3.4.2
On the limited determinacy of retributivism
119
3.4.2.1
Commensurateness to the rescue? 1
19
CONTENTS
ІХ
3.4.2.
1.1
Going too far
120
3.4.2.1.2
Against uniqueness
122
3.4.2.2
Proportionality
124
3.4.2.3
Lextalhtiis
128
3.4.2.3.1
Reiman on retribution and equality
129
3.4.2.3.2
Waldron on returning like for like
130
3.5
A concluding rejection of scepticism
135
4.
Death as Incapacitation
137
4.1
The general doctrine
137
4.1
л
Punishment as incapacitation
138
4.1.2
Incapacitation is not tantamount to deterrence
140
4.1.2.1
Four differences
140
4.1.2.2
A missed distinction: some closing remarks and examples
143
4.1.3
Incapacitation is not tantamount to retribution or denunciation
145
4.2
The fatal shortcomings of the incapacitative justification
147
4.2.1
Moral responsibility swept aside
147
4.2.2
More on moral responsibility
150
4.2.3
The hurdle of the Minimal Invasion Principle
151
4.3
Conclusion: irreparable damage
153
5.
Death as a Means of Denunciation
155
5.1
The general denunciatory theory of punishment
155
5.1.1
Denunciation versus deterrence
157
5.1.2
Denunciation versus retribution
159
5-2
The denunciatory theory as a rationale for capital punishment in I
5.3
The unsustainability of the denunciatory theory
162
5.3л
Empirical murkiness
162
5.3.2
When perceptions do not match reality
164
5.3.2.1
Denunciation versus incapacitation
165
5.3.2.2
A problem of principle
167
5.3.3
Inverted proportionality and surreptitious crimes
168
5.3.3.1
Reinforcement of moral outlooks
168
5.3.3.2
The defusing of vindictive impulses
170
5.3.3.3
The consolidation of a community's identity 1
7
1
5.3.4
No upper limit
172
5-3-5 The minimal invasion principle afresh
174
5-4
Concluding reflections 1
78
6.
The Purgative Rationale for Capital Punishment
179
6.1
The execution of Achan
181
6.1.1
The extraneous features 182
б.і.і.і
Excessive severity and the massacre of the innocents 1
82
6.1.1.2
Collective responsibility versus defilement 1
83
6.1.1.3
Some further extraneous features
185
6.1.2
The gist of the purgative rationale t86
6.2
The nature of evil
«87
CONTENTS
6.2.1
The underlying
states
of mind
188
6.2.
1.1
Sadistic malice
189
6.2.1.2
Heartlessness 191
6.2.1.2.1
Heartlessness without evil
193
6.2.1.2.2
Heartlessness with some qualms
194
6.2.1.2.3
Heartlessness with seemingly good intentions
196
6.2.1.2.4
Heartlessness, moral conflicts, and mitigation
197
6.2.1.3
Extreme recklessness
199
6.2.1.3.1
More realistic examples
200
6.2.1.3.2
Recklessness without evil
201
6.2.1.3.3
The qualitative/quantitative distinction again
202
6.2.2
The factor of harmfulness 203
6.2.2.1
Connections between culpability and harm 204
6.2.2.1.1
Failed attempts and unmaterialized risks 204
6.2.2.1.2
Overdetermined harm
206
6.2.2.1.3
Attenuated links 208
6.2.2.1.4
Spectatorialpleasure
211
6.2.2.2
Is severe harm necessary for evil?
212
6.2.2.2.1
Concomitants of harm
215
6.2.2.2.2
Tortured cats and bullied children
216
6.2.2.2.3
Sadistic voyeurism again
218
6.2.2.2.4
A face-saving reply
219
6.2.2.2.5
An embarrassing secret
221
6.3
Defilement and death
223
6.3.1
Nothing supernatural
224
6.3.2
Paradigmatic cases
226
6.3.2.1
Richard's Case
227
6.3.2.2
Joseph's Case
227
6.3.3
Defilement and purgation
228
6.3.3. ·
A first query: humankind as a whole?
230
6.3.3.2
A second query: capital punishment for mere contempt?
231
6.3.3.3
A third query: whence the community's involvement?
232
6.3.3.4
A fourth query: why death?
235
6.3.3.5
A fifth query: a role for repentance?
237
6.3.3.6
A sixth query: difficult backgrounds and extenuation
240
6.3.3.6.1
General inflexibility
241
6.3.3.6.2
Some exceptions
243
6.3.3.7
A seventh query: mental maladies and shortcomings
244
6.3.3.7.1
Mistakes about harmfulness versus mistakes about morality
244
6.3.3.7.2
Mental retardation
245
6.3.3.7.3
Mental illness
246
6.3.3.7.4
Insanity after conviction
247
6.3.3.8
An eighth query: failed attempts afresh
248
6.3.3.9
A ninth query: jurisdictional complexities
249
6.3.3.10
A tenth query: vagueness and aggravating factors
252
CONTENTS Xl
6.3.3.10.
ι
The concerns of the opponents of the purgative rationale
253
rt.3.3.10.2 Dealing with vagueness
254
6.3.3.11
An eleventh query: permissibility as well as obligatoriness?
25η
6.3.3.
її.і
When permissibility is missing
256
6.3.3.11.2
When executions are permissible
257
6.4
Conclusion: why only liberal democracies?
260
6.4.1
An ancillary reason: procedural fairness
260
6.4.2
The chief reason: purgation in a moral community
262
7.
The Death Penalty in Operation
267
7.1
Mistakes and irrevocability
269
7.1.1
A preliminary point: clarifying an ambiguity
270
7.1.2
Intentional killings of innocents?
271
7.1.2.1
A specious argument
271
7.1.2.2
Intentional or not?
275
7.1.2.2.1
The
de
dicto/de
re distinction
27η
TA.
2.2.2
The distinction applied
277
7.1.3
Sweeping too broadly
278
7.1.3.1
Lempert's reasoning afresh
27y
7.1.3.2
Intentionality at the level of decision-making, once again
280
7.1.3.3
Steikerand Steikeron the distinctive harms of
mistaken executions
2X1
7.1.4
Irrevocability?
284
7.1.4.1
Compensability
284
7.1.4.2
Remedies during one's lifetime
286
7.1.5
Capital punishment in the shadow of mistakes
290
7.1.5.1
Confidence rather than certainty
292
7.1.5.2
Exasperation as the price of legitimacy
295
7.2
Arbitrariness
297
7.2.1
A markedly inadequate response
299
7.2.2
Another unsatisfactory response 3°3
7.2.3
Distortive exaggeration 3°5
7.2.3.1
Processes of differentiation in practice
305
7.2.3.1.1
Studies cited by
Dolinko
3OÍ>
7.2.3.1.2
McCord on aggravating factors
308
7.2.3.2
Differentiation in principle 3°8
7.2.4
Residual arbitrariness
3"
7.3
Invidious discrimination 3'3
7.3.1
Extrinsicality
314
7.3.2
A couple of complexities and the key rejoinder 3'5
7.3.3
No severe punishments? A first look
317
7.3.4
No severe punishments? A second look
318
7.3.4.1
An opening reply to Cholbi 3T9
7.3.4.2
A further reply to Cholbi
3 '9
7.3.4.3
A final reply to Cholbi
320
XU CONTENTS
7.3.4.3.1 Fair
discrimination
320
7.3.4.3.2
A
dubious principle
323
7.3.4.4
A
brief summation
324
7.3.5
Substance dressed up afresh as procedure
324
7.4
A few words in conclusion
326
References
329
Index
341 |
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| title | The ethics of capital punishment a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences |
| title_auth | The ethics of capital punishment a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences |
| title_exact_search | The ethics of capital punishment a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences |
| title_full | The ethics of capital punishment a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences Matthew H. Kramer |
| title_fullStr | The ethics of capital punishment a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences Matthew H. Kramer |
| title_full_unstemmed | The ethics of capital punishment a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences Matthew H. Kramer |
| title_short | The ethics of capital punishment |
| title_sort | the ethics of capital punishment a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences |
| title_sub | a philosophical investigation of evil and its consequences |
| topic | Capital punishment / Moral and ethical aspects Ethik Ethik (DE-588)4015602-3 gnd Todesstrafe (DE-588)4060306-4 gnd |
| topic_facet | Capital punishment / Moral and ethical aspects Ethik Todesstrafe |
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