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Reflections on Opposing the Penalty of Death
Black, Charles
Black, Charles
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Abstract
For about five years now, I have been going up and down the land, in print sometimes but mostly not in print, trying to persuade my fellow citizens that the penalty of death ought to be abolished. For most of that time, I have mainly stressed a single thesis. In this talk I want, first, to try to place that thesis, a little more definitely than I have done before, in relation to other lines of thought about the death penalty, and then to say a very little about certain other reflections of mine on the theme, without quite as definite a relation to what has become, one might say, my principal specialty as a part of the opposition to this practice.