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An inalienable right is a right that the possessor cannot transfer, sell, or give away to another person.1

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  1. Hugo Adam Bedau, "Capital Punishment," in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed. Tom Regan (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993), 162.