Those who argue that the death penalty is an ethical way to deal with societies "bad seeds" often state that great American thinkers and leaders such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Kant, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Mill all supported the death penalty (Koch 324). ...

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