Against capital punishment:
"Against Capital Punishment offers an innovative proceduralist argument against the death penalty. Worries about the specter of procedural injustice animate many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. Philosophers and legal theorists are attracted to procedural abolitionism bec...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Against Capital Punishment offers an innovative proceduralist argument against the death penalty. Worries about the specter of procedural injustice animate many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. Philosophers and legal theorists are attracted to procedural abolitionism because it sidesteps controversies over whether murderers deserve death, holding out a promise of persuading those whose favor the death penalty on substantive grounds. Following in this path, Yost's contention is not that the act of execution is substantively immoral; in fact, he presumes the appropriateness of execution for some first-degree murderers and carefully reconstructs the best defenses of the death penalty. Rather, his strategy is to show that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes precludes the just administration of capital punishment. Yost's approach is novel in its breadth and depth. He is the first to provide a comprehensive philosophical defense of the well-known irrevocability argument, analyzing its premises, establishing their validity, and vindicating them against objections. Yost's central claim is that capital punishment is unjust insofar as execution violates the principle of remedy, which requires legal institutions to remedy their mistakes and to compensate those who suffer from wrongful sanctions. The death penalty is repellent to the principle of remedy by dint of its irrevocability. This incompatibility is at the heart of his abolitionist argument: because the wrongly executed cannot enjoy the obligatory remedial measures, execution is impermissible. Yost also takes pains to defend the irrevocability of execution"-- |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 280 Seiten 22 cm |
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
L1. The promise of procedural abolitionism 6
1.1.1. Capital error 11
1.2. A brief précis of the argument 13
1.3. Preliminaries and presuppositions 15
1.3.1. Retributivism 17
1.3.1.1. Proportionality and desert 18
1.3.1.2. Positive and negative retributivism 19
1.3-1.3. Comprehensive and sentencing retributivism 20
1.4. Chapter outline 25
1.4.1 Death and Retribution 25
1.4.2 The Necessity of Execution 26
1.4.3 The Irrevocability of Execution 27
1.4.4 The Argument for Abolition 28
1.4.5 The Prospects of the New Proceduralism 31
1. Death and Retribution 32
1.1. Why retributivism ? 33
1.1.1. The problems with deterrence 33
1.1.1.1. Does the death penalty deter? 37
1.1.1.2. Capital punishment, deterrence,, and common sense 39
1.1.1.3. The Best Bet defense 40
1.1.2. Other theories: rehabilitation, restitution, communication,
denunciation, and self-defense
43
CONTENTS
1.2. Retributivism and proportionality 45
1.2.1. Cardinal proportionality and the lex talionis 47
1.3. Murder and execution 53
1.3.1. Other death eligible crimes? 55
1.3.2. Objections and replies 56
1.4. Potential constraints on the lex talionis 58
1.4.1. The right to life 58
1.4.2. Dignity 62
1.4.2.1. Dignity as status 64
1.5. Not so final words 71
2. The Necessity of Execution 73
2.1. Kramer s purgative rationale 74
2.1.1. Kramer s minimal invasion principle 75
2.1.2. The purgative rationale 76
2.1.3. An assessment of the purgative justification 84
2.1.3.1. Defilingly evil or psychopathology? 84
2.1.3.2. MIP-worthy alternatives to execution 87
2.1.3.3. Does defiling evil demand execution ? 89
2.1.3.4. Reconciling retributivism and the purgative rationale 92
2.2. Kants retributive rationale 96
2.2.1. The necessity of punishment 97
2.2.2. The coherence of Kant s prima facie justification 100
2.2.3. The right to life 106
2.2.4. Death before dishonor 110
2.2.5. In conclusion 120
2.3. Retributive reasons to execute 121
3. The Irrevocability of Execution 123
3.1. The alleged revocability of capital punishment 125
3.1.1. Davis on revocability 125
3.1.2. The Pitcher-Feinberg theory of posthumous harm 130
3.2. The plausibility of posthumous harm 135
3.2.1. The timing problem 135
3.2.2. The problem of the subject 137
3.2.3. The plausibility of posthumous harm 139
3.3. Irrevocability vindicated 144
3.4. The revocability of noncapital punishment 151
3.4.1. Life without parole 154
4. The Argument for Abolition 158
4.1. Fix your mistakes (FM) 159
4.2. The retributivist challenge and retributivism 167
4.3. FM abolitionism so far 168
CONTENTS
4.4. A sketch of the solution 169
4.4.1. Expanded asymmetry (EA) 173
4.5. Defending EA—two unsuccessful attempts 176
4.5.1. Reiman on asymmetry 176
4.5.2. Duus-Otterstrom on asymmetry 181
4.6. A more promising defense of EA 186
4.6.1. Duus-Otterstrom refurbished 186
4.6.2. The complete argument for EA 193
4.6.3. Specific arguments for EA 196
4.6.3.1. Minimal uncertainty 196
4.6.3.2. Uncertainty at the margins 198
4.6.3.3. Moderate uncertainty 200
4.6.4. An objection and a reply 202
4.6.5. In praise of the complete argument 204
4.7. The insufficiency of EA abolitionism 204
4.7.1. Uncertainty 208
4.8. The irrevocability argument for abolition 218
4.8.1. The argument 218
4.8.2. The problem of controversial consequences and the retributivist challenge 220
4.8.3. An unreasonable standard? 221
5. The Prospects of the New Proceduralism 223
5.1. The promise and peril of procedural abolitionism 224
5.1.1. Philosophical proceduralism 225
5.1.2. The problem with non-irrevocability versions of philosophical
proceduralism 234
5.1.3. Legal proceduralism 237
5.1.4. Substance dressed up as procedure ? 244
5.2. The irrevocability argument and controversial consequences 247
5.3. Implications for capital jurisprudence 248
5.3.1. A constitutional abolitionism? 248
5.3.2. The problem of finality 252
References 2 59
Index 271
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