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Quotation from The Science of Right by Immanuel Kant
“the last Murderer lying in the prison ought to be executed before the resolution was carried out”
The Science of Right, Part II, § 49, General Remark E. I. The Right of Punishing, trans. W. Hastie (1887)
The island example: even a society dissolving itself by unanimous consent must first execute its last murderer, so that bloodguilt does not rest on the people.
Citation: "the last Murderer lying in the prison ought to be executed before the resolution was carried out" — Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right, Part II, § 49, General Remark E. I. The Right of Punishing, trans. W. Hastie (1887). (id kant-science-of-right-q12)
