Hugo Adam Bedau (September 23, 1926 – August 13, 2012) was the Austin B. Fletcher
Professor of
Philosophy,
Emeritus, at
Tufts University, and is best known for his work on
capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty scholar" by
Stuart Taylor Jr., who has quoted Bedau as saying "I'll let the criminal justice system execute all the
McVeighs they can capture, provided they'd sentence to prison all the people who are not like McVeigh."