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Business and Ethics of Capital Punishment

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Criminal execution; Death penalty

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Capital punishment is the state’s purposeful execution of a legal offender according to due process of law. Depending on the jurisdiction, it might involve lethal injection, electrocution, firing squad, hanging, etc. The business of capital punishment concerns the everyday manner in which the system of capital punishment functions, while the ethics of capital punishment concerns the normative justificatory status of both the institution and practice of capital punishment. The institution of capital punishment includes the rules and regulations which govern its practice, which is the carrying out of the death sentence on duly convicted first-degree murderers, certain war criminals, and others strongly responsible for such crimes deserving of execution. Among other things, the business of capital punishment concerns itself with the practical viability of capital punishment, that is, the extent to which the institution and/or...

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    (What follows is a brief summary of capital punishment suspensionism as it is found in Corlett (2014: 164f)).

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  1. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

    J. Angelo Corlett

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  1. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Deborah C Poff

  2. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Alex C. Michalos

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  1. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

    J. Angelo Corlett Ph.D.

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Angelo Corlett, J. (2017). Business and Ethics of Capital Punishment. In: Poff, D., Michalos, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_10-1

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