21
Apr
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Abolitionism of the death penalty
By: SMAFassociates
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According to general US retributivist justification for punishment (theory which maintains that punishment of a wrongdoer is justified for the reason that s/he deserves something bad to happen to him/her just because s/he has knowingly done wrong), - the death row inmate Vernon Madison (now imprisoned in Alabama) could not suffer punishment as pain, deprivation, or death. For the retributivist, it is the basic desert attached to the criminal’s immoral action alone that provides the justification for punishment, but Mr.