punishment (was: Student Loans & Bankruptcies (was Re:creative financing)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>So if one thinks, as I do, that retributivism will be hard to 
>eradicate, and may be correct if not the only legitimate goal of 
>criminal justice, then we will look at ways to discourage 
>overpunishment _in part for retributive reasons_, because 
>retributivism discourages the punishment of the innocent and 
>overpunishing the guilty. I find some encouragement in the growing 
>horror over the realization that we are executing people who are 
>innocent of the crimes of which they have been convicted.
>
>--jks

Horror over the realization that the state can & does execute those 
who are innocent of the crimes of which they have been convicted has 
grown together with opposition to the death penalty tout court.  The 
former wouldn't have grown without the growing movement dedicated to 
the latter.

Yoshie