In her ground-breaking paper 'Modern Moral Philosophy' (1958), Elizabeth Anscombe famously stated “if someone really thinks, in advance, that it is open to question whether such an action as procuring the judicial execution of the innocent should be quite excluded from consideration – I do not want to argue with him; he shows a corrupt mind”.
Her target in these words was secular "consequentialist" thinkers, who deny that there are any intrinsically evil choices – choices "off the table" as moral options. In other words, she believed that there are exceptionless moral norms such as "do not deliberately execute the innocent".
