According to Nathanson, proportional retributivism cannot entail a requirement that murderers be executed because:
A) Proportional retributivism only entails that murder should be punished more seriously than other crimes.
B) Proportional retributivism focuses too closely on the intentions and motivations of the murder.
C) Proportional retributivism is a crude application of the more nuanced principles of "payback" retributivism.
D) Proportional relativism does not provide a sufficiently general criterion for ranking the severity of crimes.

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Proportional retributivism entails that the punishment should be proportional to the severity of the crime, meaning that while murder should be punished more severely than other crimes, it does not specifically require that the punishment must be execution.

According to Nathanson, Proportional Retributivism Cannot Entail a Requirement That