Ethical Pluralism In The Film Dead Man Walking

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"Dead Man Walking" is a film in which a convicted killer is on death row who eventually meets and forms a bond with a nun. While watching the film many questions were brought up, the main one being whether Matthew Poncelet, who is partially responsible for the death of a high school couple and rape of the female victim, should face the death penalty. The film ultimately answers the question for us with him being denied in the appeal court and is eventually executed. Now while the film killing Matthew is justified, I wonder to myself was his death ethically justifiable? Since ethics has many ways of approaching a situation such as this I would like to only apply ethical conventionalism to this scenario. For those unaware, ethical conventionalism

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