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moongchi

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Berns maintains that the death penalty
 
  a. constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
  b. violates the basic humanity of those who are executed.
  c. treats those who are executed as means for the good of society, rather than as
  ends-in-themselves.
  d. respects the dignity of the executed by treating them as responsible moral beings
  e. must be carried out and witnessed by the whole community in order to be
  legitimate, through public execution or even by public stoning.

Question 2

Berns maintains that criminal behavior
 
  a. injures the entire community, and the community rightly expresses its anger
  toward the criminal.
  b. is a result of genetic makeup, and thus the criminal is not responsible.
  c. is caused by a flaw in the social system, and any anger should be directed toward
  the correction of that system.
  d. must be controlled by the society, but can legitimately be punished only by God.
  e. should be dealt with through reform and rehabilitation, rather than punishment.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a





 

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