Against Capital Punishment

ISBN-13: 9780190901165 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

Benjamin S. Yost

Recenzje

The death penalty is the most severe punishment available for those countries, like the United States, that still retain it...Benjamin Yost's defense of procedural abolitionism opens a new, convincing front as to why all of us, including retributivists, should not support death as a punishment...Against Capital Punishment is more than just an excellent work developing to a greater extent a compelling proceduralist approach to abolition of capital punishment; it is a rigorously researched and comprehensive take on the justifiability of execution as punishment.

O autorze

Benjamin S. Yost is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and has previously taught at Harvard University and Cornell University. His specializations include the philosophy of punishment and Kant's practical philosophy, with his published work appearing in journals such as Utilitas, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Kantian Review, and Continental Philosophy Review. He is currently co-editing a volume entitled Philosophers on the Movement for Black Lives.