Question

How does Ernst van den Haag reply when confronted with the fact that the death penalty, as administered , falls unfairly / unequally on certain groups of persons (blacks and the poor )?

READING - THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT: A DEFENSE 99 The Harvard Law Review 1662-1669 (1986) Ernest van den Haag
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Answer 1

Ernt Van Den Haag admitted that the poor and powerlass may be more tempted to take the things they didn't have and to rebel than the people who are wealthy, powerful who need not to take what they already have. He argued in a way that people compare the cost and Benefit of a crime as well as the punishments and after effects too. He supported the death penalty for certain serious crimes. He believes that, after comparison of gain and loss of a crime, if loss is huge than the gain even poor will not commit the crime. The repetiotion of crime rate will reduce in future too. t's a psychological approach.