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  2. Libertarian perspectives on capital punishment - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Debates within libertarianism - Wikipedia

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    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 ".

  4. Criticism of libertarianism - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Opinion - What does Donald Trump’s return mean for the death ...

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    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 ...

  6. Why is the death penalty still used? Let's look at the pros ...

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    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.”

  7. Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously ...

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    President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” after President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences ...

  8. Capital punishment debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Hugo Bedau - Wikipedia

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    He was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, [6] for whom he wrote on the death penalty. [ 7 ] Bedau was the author of The Death Penalty in America (1st edition, 1964; 4th edition, 1997), The Courts, the Constitution, and Capital Punishment (1977), Death is Different (1987), and Killing as Punishment (2004), and co-author of In Spite ...