Contractualism and the Death Penalty

Criminal Justice Ethics 36 (2):152-182 (2017)
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It is a truism that there are erroneous convictions in criminal trials. Recent legal findings show that 3.3% to 5% of all convictions in capital rape-murder cases in the U.S. in the 1980s were erro...

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10.1080/0731129x.2017.1358912

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