Death penalty positions rest on retributive, economic, or rights-based rationales

Evidence

Retentionists and abolitionists differ markedly in the reasons for the positions they take toward the death penalty. Retentionists want murderers put to death as repayment in kind, because they deserve it, and to save taxpayers money (although, as we will see, this has been called into question). Abolitionists oppose the death penalty because it is wrong for the state to take a human life, because innocent individuals are sometimes wrongly executed, and because the death penalty violates their religious beliefs. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1837

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1837