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This 3 page opinion paper explores Hugo Bedau’s reply to Ernest van den Haag, in which Bedau argues that van den Haag’s support of the death penalty is misguided and the death penalty should be abolished. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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that van den Haag uses in his support of the ultimate penalty, and shows why the argument doesnt hold up. This paper is too short to enumerate all of Bedaus
examples, but we can look at the most common. Discussion Often, van den Haag completely dismisses findings that numerous and on-going studies have revealed with regard to the death penalty.
Perhaps one of van den Haags most egregious assertions is that race has no bearing on who is sentenced to death, how often, and for what crimes. Bedau points out
that van den Haag attacks "the claim that racial discrimination is administering the death penalty establishes that penaltys unconstitutionality" (Bedau 480). He does admit that there might be "some" racial
discrimination in the use of the death penalty, which Bedau argues is a major admission, since most death penalty advocates refuse to even admit the possibility (Bedau). However, Bedau argues
that van den Haag attaches "little weight" to the discrimination argument, because if he did, he would then have to admit that "the whole criminal justice system is tilted slightly
against nonwhites, thus reducing to relative insignificance whatever racial discrimination the death penalty involves" (Bedau 480). Van den Haag argues that the remedy is not to abolish the death penalty
but to "abolish the discrimination (which, he adds, favor murderers of blacks and therefore favors blacks over whites, since most black murder victims are killed by blacks)" (Bedau 480). Van
den Haags twisted logic is staggering: because more blacks are killed by blacks than by whites, the system is not prejudiced if more blacks are convicted. Actually, if we look
just at this one single concept, black on black murder, then yes, most blacks are killed by other blacks. Therefore, in this limited thinking, there is no discrimination, because "capital
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