Executing a person requires stripping morality from each step of the process

Evidence

No amount of debate about capital punishment can dispel the reality that it involves killing a human being. Putting a person to death requires stripping morality from every phase of the execution process. When capital punishment is carried out, moral disengagement operates with increasing personal involvement at the societal, judicial, and execution levels. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1868

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up moral disengagement’s three tiers (societal, judicial, execution) as a framework for the whole chapter argument.
• XREF: connects to: Sacralized scriptural precedent is invoked to authorize killing enemy civilians in the IDF — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 893