{"id":302,"date":"2019-01-07T04:11:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lex-warrier.in\/archives\/?p=302"},"modified":"2019-02-13T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:38:12","slug":"capital-punishment-debates-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lex-warrier.in\/archives\/capital-punishment-debates-implementation.html","title":{"rendered":"Naturalistic and positivistic debates on implementing the capital punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>K.A.A.N. Thilakarathna<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nLecturer, Institute of Human Resource Advancement,<br \/>\nUniversity of Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Implementation of the death penalty (i.e. capital punishment) is a contemporary issue in most parts of the universe. It lies at the heart of retributory justice and is still practiced by a significant part of the globe. While many countries have abolished the death penalty either <em>de jure<\/em> or <em>de facto<\/em>, there are still several arguments both for and against the implementation of the death penalty. Regarding these arguments it then becomes important to see whether there is any merit in the jurisprudential arguments specially from the natural law and positivistic schools of legal thought. The proponents of <a href=\"https:\/\/lex-warrier.in\/archives\/class-action-suits-protection-minority-rights.html\">natural law<\/a> who base their arguments on the connection of law and morality both argue for and against the death penalty and, proponents of the positivistic school are strongly adamant about the validity of the implementation of the death penalty. In the above back drop this paper examines the ideas put forward by Lon Fuller and John Finnis regarding the natural law thinking and, the ideas of H.L.A. Hart and Hans Kelsen from the positivistic perspective.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> <\/span>HLA Hart, Lon Fuller, John Finnis, Kelsen, Capital Punishment, Theories of Punishment<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Preferred Citation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">K.A.A.N. Thilakarathna, Naturalistic and positivistic debates on implementing the capital punishment, The Lex-Warrier: Online Law Journal (2019) 1, pp. 26 &#8211; 35, ISSN (O): 2319-8338<\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lex-warrier.in\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Naturalistic-and-positivistic-debates-on-implementing-the-capital-punishment.pdf\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-glass\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#ef792d;border-color:#c06124;border-radius:7px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:7px 20px;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;border-color:#f4a26c;border-radius:7px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-file-pdf-o\" style=\"font-size:16px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i> Read the full paper<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K.A.A.N. Thilakarathna Lecturer, Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Abstract Implementation of the death penalty (i.e. capital punishment) is a contemporary issue in most parts of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract","no-post-thumbnail","clearfix","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Capital punishment &amp; its implementation: Debates under schools of law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Implementation of the death penalty (i.e. capital punishment) is a contemporary issue in most parts of the universe. 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