Immanual Kant, a philosopher on the matter of ethics, founded the Categorical Imperative, which is a rule known all around the world, that states that society and its individuals "must act in such a way that you can will that your actions become a universal law for all to follow" (Palmer 265). ... Stephen Nathanson, a professor of philosophy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois addressed the problems of discrimination and unpredictability best by saying, "as long as racial, class, religious, and economic bias continue to be important determinants of who is executed, the death penal...

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