Black Lives Matter and the Call for Death Penalty Abolition

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...

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Authors: Cholbi, Michael (Author) ; Madva, Alex (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: Ethics
Year: 2018
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Summary: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
ISSN:1539-297X
DOI:10.1086/695988