Berns maintains that the death penalty

a. constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
b. violates the basic humanity of those who are executed.
c. treats those who are executed as means for the good of society, rather than as
ends-in-themselves.
d. respects the dignity of the executed by treating them as responsible moral beings
e. must be carried out and witnessed by the whole community in order to be
legitimate, through public execution or even by public stoning.


d

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