Hugo Adam Bedau

Hugo Adam Bedau (born 23 September 1926) is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment.

Bedau gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1961 and subsequently taught at at Dartmouth College, Princeton University and Reed College before joining Tufts in 1966. He retired in 1999. [cite web|url=http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/people/bedau.shtml|title=Hugo A. Bedau|publisher=Tufts University|accessdate=2008-05-28] Bedau is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union,cite news|url=http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/people/hugo.htm|title=Resolution on the retirement of Hugo Adam Bedau adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Tufts University|author=Norman Daniels|publisher=Tufts University|date=1999-05-17|accessdate=2008-05-28] for whom he has written on the death penalty. [cite web|url=http://users.rcn.com/mwood/deathpen.html|author=Hugo Adam Bedau|title=The Case Against the Death Penalty|publisher=American Civil Liberties Union|date=July 1992|accessdate=2008-05-28]

He is author of "The Death Penalty in America" (1st edition, 1964; 4th edition, 1997). On the occasion of Bedau's retirement, Norman Daniels said of "The Death Penalty in America": "It is the premier example in this century of the systematic application of academic philosophical skills to a practical issue, and the flood of work in practical ethics that has followed can rightfully cite Hugo's work as its starting point".

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* [http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/people/bedau.shtml Homepage at Tufts University]