Challenging challenges: a metaphysical redress of van den Haag's retributive axiom – unequal justice over equal injustice

For over thirty years Ernest van den Haag repeatedly asserted a controversial claim in favour of the death penalty. He argued that, regardless of the extent to which capital punishment sentences are unequally, arbitrarily, or even racially, maldistributed among offenders, capital punishment is alway...

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