The debate around capital punishment attempts to discuss the grounds for a morally justifiable response to the state’s deliberate killing of offenders, even when they commit the most serious and deplorable crimes. From a philosophical perspective, two broadly different approaches are commonly identified: retributivism and utilitarianism (or consequentialism). Retributivism is backward-looking oriented in the sense … Continue reading Discourses on the Death Penalty. A Philosophical Perspective →