- An encyclopedia of philosophy article on the death penalty.
- A large collection of resources on the ethics of capital punishment. I mean, wow.
- What's up with punishment in general? That's a big ethical issue.
- What about the financial cost of the death penalty? Although it's common sense to think that keeping a criminal in prison for life would cost more than putting her to death, some studies suggest that the opposite is true. The additional legal battles in death penalty cases may cost more than a life sentence.
- A nice article on measuring the reliability of the justice system. How often do courts convict the wrong person?
- I'll be mentioning "owning our ignorance" in class during our discussion of the death penalty. I like this issue so much that I've started a club about it!
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