The Idea Department

Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, has written an article on Project Syndicate, about the death penalty. Singer concludes with the contradictions in America’s southern states, with regards the death penalty and anti-abortion campaigning, as well as opposition to assisted suicide.

‘In view of the possibility that Georgia recently executed an innocent man, it is particularly ironic that the South’s voters are America’s most zealous in their efforts to protect innocent human life – as long as that life is still inside the womb, or is that of a person who, suffering from a terminal illness, seeks a doctor’s assistance in order to die when he or she wants. It is a contradiction that belies what the Republican Party, which dominates the region, promotes as a “culture of life.”’

Read more on Project Syndicate, here.