9) Capital Punishment
What are the arguments for and against capital punishment (or the death penalty)?
Under what contexts (if any) is capital punishment justifiable?
How can we reconcile the tension between justice, crime, fairness and empathy?
Read This:
- Death Penalty Information Center (2025), ‘Arguments for and against the death penalty‘
- The Advocates for Human Rights (n.d.), ‘Death Penalty Issues‘
- Damura, F.O., Tuhulele, P., and Wattimena, J.A.Y. (2025) ‘The Practice of the Death Penalty in Middle Eastern Countries Reviewed from the Perspective of International Law’, Balobe Law Journal, 5(1), pp. 1–13.
- Cherlow, Y. (2025) ‘The case against a blanket death penalty for terrorists‘, Ynetnews, 24 November.
Watch This:
ITN Archive, The Hanging Debate (1983):
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Listen To This:
Throughline Podcast, We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment