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...While candidly acknowledging that such refutation in no way advances the affirmative argument that must be made in favor of capital punishment, he leaves implicit the suggestion that part of the retentionist's case has already been made...
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...Putting aside the formidable, though not insuperable, difficulties entailed in justly deciding which particular capital offenders ought to die, there remains the core issue: Of what character is the moral instruction that we, as a society, are imparting through the killing of this criminal...
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...C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E Against Capital Punishment Walter Berns' For Capital Punishment: CHine and the Morality of the Death Penalty and Maurice J. Holland's favorable review of it in your pages (December 1979) invite the sympathetically critical discussion which the book has thus far failed to receive...
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