If Executions Are to Achieve Deterrence, Would-Be Killers Must Identify

question 6

True/False

If executions are to achieve deterrence, would-be killers must identify with criminals who are executed. On the other hand, if executions brutalize, would-be killers must identify their victims with executed criminals and themselves with state-sanctioned executioners.

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Definitions:

Analysis

The process of examining components or structures of a subject to understand its nature or to determine its essential features and their relations.

Hedonism

A philosophy that argues pleasure or happiness is the highest good and ultimate aim in life.

Pursuit

The act of following or chasing with the goal of catching or achieving something.

Structural Racism

A system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity.