... as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Kant, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Mill all supported the death penalty (Koch 324). But what people fail to remember is that Washington and Jefferson, both supported slavery as well and surely, the advice of someone who has clearly demonstrated a ... and the revenge but the "frustration and rage of people who see that the government is not coping with violent crime," are not of good will, thereby making capital punishment immoral according to many ethical philosophers (Bruck 329). The question of whether execution i...

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