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The Black Lives Matter movement has called for the abolition of capital punishment in response to what it calls “the war against Black people” and “Black communities.” This article defends the two central contentions in the movement’s abolitionist stance: first, that US capital punishment practices represent a wrong to black communities rather than simply a wrong to particular black capital defendants or particular black victims of murder, and second, that the most defensible remedy for this wrong is the abolition of the death penalty.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 517-544 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy |
Volume | 128 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 30 Apr 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2018 |
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Michael Cholbi
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Chair in Philosophy
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