Bruce Fein, JD Biography
- Title:
- General Counsel for the Center for Law and Accountability
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should the Death Penalty Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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Abolitionists may contend that the death penalty is inherently immoral because governments should never take human life, no matter what the provocation. But that is an article of faith, not of fact, just like the opposite position held by abolitionist detractors, including myself…
The death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his own destiny for good or for ill; it does not treat him as an animal with no moral sense, and thus subject even to butchery to satiate human gluttony. Moreover, capital punishment celebrates the dignity of the humans whose lives were ended by the defendant’s predation.”
“Individual Rights and Responsability – The Death Penalty, But Sparingly,” American Bar Association’s website (accessed June 17, 2008)
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- General Counsel, Center for Law and Accountability
- Founder, American Freedom Agenda, 2007-present
- Principal, The Lichfield Group
- Research Director, Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran
- General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission
- Associate Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice, 1981-1982
- Assistant Director, Office of Legal Policy, US Department of Justice
- Education:
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- JD, Harvard Law School, 1972
- Other:
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