A paper on the death penalty was presented at the 2007 conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP 2007).
This is perhaps the first paper in which the Principle of Goodness is applied to a directly practical problem of great interest and importance (and controversy) in the world today. It is very encouraging that the abstract Principle can be used to get concrete guidance on such a significant issue.
The Death Penalty and the Principle of Goodness shows how the issue can be taken away from the emotive polar opposites that are usually presented by one sise or the other, and recommendations can be derived that protect the innocent, who might be either innocent victims of crime or innocents wrongly accused.
The paper may be downloaded from the papers section.