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Applied EthicsIntermediate18 minPlanned

The Death Penalty

Where the capital case turns on desert, irreversible error, and whether proportionality has an upper limit

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Applied Ethics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

All intermediate Applied EthicsRead Rights, Duties, and Going Beyond Duty
Will defineproportionalitycapital punishment
Assumesconsequentialismdeontologyright to lifemoral agentretributivismdeterrencedesertrehabilitation

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