Capital Punishment Essay: Denial Of Autonomy

Capital punishment falls in three of the objectification properties. Those three are denial of autonomy, violability, and lastly, ownership. Let’s beginning with denial in autonomy. Denial of autonomy is defined as the treatment a person as lacking autonomy and self determination, in other words the person denied to make decisions on their own. In capital punishment, the individual who is being sentence to “death” is being denied their right to live. They are denied their autonomy. Although, it was discussed in class that too much autonomy is not a good thing, I find this case to immorally wrong.
As we continue with violability, violability is defined as the treatment of a person lacking in bodily and life integrity. In this case, the person is giving away their perfectly healthy life, in return society is receiving
In other words, your feelings don't matter. For example, if a man committed a crime where they killed a vast amount of innocent suvillans and is sentenced to death role, after committing that crime, that man’s feelings don't matter anymore. He is denied subjectivity because of the crime he committed. I don't believe this morally wrong because everything you comes with a consequence. Therefore, if you knew what you were doing and knew that it was morally wrong, than you should accept the consequences. Something that we need to take into consideration is that in cases of capital punishment, subjectivity can’t be involved. Why? well because that we would have to take into consideration of everyone’s feelings and or feelings sometimes causes us to my impulsive decisions. I recently read an article by BS Murthy, Abolition of Capital Punishment: Objectification of subjectivity (21-Sep-2011) and it emphasized on subjectivity in capital punishment and how subjectivity can cause unjustness in a court of