Supporters of capital punishment usually put forward three arguments to justify state-sanctioned killing of those who take the life of another. First, there is the old law of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
死刑支持派通常会罗列三种论点，来为国家审批杀人者死刑进行辩护。首先是“以眼还眼，以牙还牙”的古老原则。用伊曼努尔·康德（Immanuel Kant）、而不是某位德克萨斯州州长的话说，没有任何一种其他刑罚“足以伸张正义”。