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The U.S. Libertarian Party, a right-libertarian American third party, opposes "the administration of the death penalty by the state" [5] despite the large stake that conservatives would have in abolishing the death penalty.
Right-libertarians are divided on capital punishment, also known as the death penalty. Those opposing it generally see it as an excessive abuse of state power which is by its very nature irreversible, with American libertarians possibly seeing it also in conflict with the Bill of Rights ban on " cruel and unusual punishment ".
Criticism of libertarianism includes ethical, economic, environmental and pragmatic concerns. With right-libertarianism, critics have argued that laissez-faire capitalism does not necessarily produce the best or most efficient outcome, and that libertarianism's philosophy of individualism and policies of deregulation fail to prevent the abuse of natural resources. [1]
The federal government’s power to abolish the death penalty everywhere rests, as Hofstra Law Professor Eric Freedman recently suggested in a remarkable essay, on Congress’s authority under ...
Since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1976 that allowed the death penalty's return, its justices have wrestled with arguments over who could be executed and how the life-and death-decisions ...
When the French parliament overwhelmingly outlawed the death penalty in 1981, he put his hand on the plaque commemorating Victor Hugo’s seat, also a strident abolitionist, and said “It is done.”
Anti-death penalty groups specifically argue that the death penalty is unfairly applied to African Americans. African Americans have constituted 34.5 percent of those persons executed since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 and 41 percent of death row inmates as of April 2018, [ 84 ] despite representing only 13 percent of the general ...
In the September 1988 issue of Liberty, [64] Hoppe attempted to establish an a priori and value-neutral justification for libertarian ethics by devising a new theory which he named argumentation ethics. [65] Hoppe asserted that any argument which in any respect purports to contradict libertarian principles is logically incoherent. [66]