How did a man who at one time vehemently campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty come to be a strenuous advocate of execution, not just for the French nobility and obvious political enemies, but for his own closest friends?
Perhaps one of the more well known is given in the following passage when she condemns Utilitarianism or, more generally Consequentialism, for leaving open the possibility that it may be morally right in some context to advocate the execution of an innocent person.
Lieberman has advocated the execution of Arab members of parliament who dare to meet with leaders of Hamas.
It seems to me that advocates of execution should want the process to be public and obviously painful instead of covert and sanitized.
He publishes what is widely regarded as a hit list of medics and openly advocates the execution of women who have terminations.
Though he had often advocated the execution of counterrevolutionaries, Marat seems to have had no direct connection with the wholesale massacres of suspects that occurred in the same month.
Charlottesville and Barcelona are also united by Donald Trump's increasingly extremist discourse from his moral equivocation over the white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, to his posting of a tweet after the Barcelona attack citing an apparently apocryphal quote, attributed to John J. Pershing, advocating the execution of Islamist terrorists with bullets dipped in pig's blood.
Although he refused to be married to Mary, Queen of Scots, Dudley was for a long time relatively sympathetic to her until from the mid-1580s he strongly advocated her execution.
"As long as senior police officials such as Waseso are allowed to advocate extrajudicial executions as an acceptable crime control solution, there is a serious risk that police will interpret those exhortations as a license to kill," Phelim Kine, the deputy director of HRW's Asia division, said.
Last weekend Senator Ted Cruz, along with fellow GOP presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, spoke at a conference in Des Moines headed up by a man who advocates the execution of gay people -- per his interpretation of the bible -- and who made his call for mass extermination once again, onstage at the event, the National Religious Liberties Conference.
