According to Nathanson, Proportional Retributivism Cannot Entail a Requirement That

question 903

Multiple Choice

According to Nathanson, proportional retributivism cannot entail a requirement that murderers be executed because:

• A) Proportional retributivism only entails that murder should be punished more seriously than other crimes.
• B) Proportional retributivism focuses too closely on the intentions and motivations of the murder.
• C) Proportional retributivism is a crude application of the more nuanced principles of "payback" retributivism.
• D) Proportional relativism does not provide a sufficiently general criterion for ranking the severity of crimes.

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