Utilitarianism And The Death Penalty Debate

Utilitarianism is defined as a set of ethical principle that seeks the best results in a situation of choice. The greatest amount of pleasure must be derived from the result of one choice for the most number of people. This idea is also what makes me a patron of the idea that the death penalty should be allowed since it serves the objective it was made to fill, a prison sentence might not be effective, and the greater good should be considered when talking about the innocents that are killed.

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is a type of punishment in which the people who are sentenced to it, “on death row’, are executed. It has had many forms, and throughout the ages many methods such as lethal injections, electrocution, firing
In Britain, according to The Home Office when the death penalty was abolished crime rates dramatically shot up to the point in which there were theorists who thought bringing it back would do more good than bad. Due to this, it can be concluded that in some places that death penalty may be more effective than it is in others, but this being said, the death penalty is effective. If something fulfills an objective that is set, then it is counterintuitive to go and abolish it, if something is not broken don’t try to fix
First of all, a man should not have the power to kill another, for they must not treat a human like something can be decided over. Well, the solution to this is to just only use the death penalty on murderers since they have already abused the power of being able to kill another human. So executing a murderer is like taking an eye for an eye. The second opposition is that we can be certain that prisons are ineffective, just like we cannot be sure that they can be effective. However, it still stands that our prisons are at least partially only for profit so in order to make the prisons a real facility for correcting behaviors we have to revamp the entire system because as it stands right now our prison system is just not doing the job. Lastly, the third opposition comes from people that say that no innocents should be killed, no matter what the other benefits of the death penalty is. I partially agree with, but regardless of that innocents are going to be killed anyways. If you think we shouldn’t kill people who kill innocents because innocents might be killed in the process, then my retort is that innocents are already dead by the time the topic of the death penalty arises.

Controversy follows the topic of the death penalty anywhere it is mentioned. There is both support and oppositions. The death penalty is effective in both the way that it serves its objective and is more effective than a