Action was made by the conservatives due to lack of response from the liberals and a demand for more patrol officers, stricter sentences and an increase in executions. Even though the Liberals were opposed to the idea of the harsh reality of penalty by death and the courts ruling in the mid 1970s that briefly dismissed it, eventually Capital Punishment became the resolve to protecting society against criminals. Zoll argues that it comes down to three significant factors that support the act of Capital Punishment; Deterrent argument, Retaliation Argument and Moral Indignation Argument. In contrast, the liberal punishment model emphasizes the rights of the accused, humane (not "cruel and unusual") punishment, and rehabilitation of those convicted of a crime. Conservatives and rightists belittle this model as "soft on crime." Liberals would argue that capital punishment is simply state sponsored and funded government murder. Liberals would further state that the killing of prisoners by Capital Punishment removes any chance of rehab and bettering our society. They believe the US spends more money on killing, the appeals, and keeping them housed in death row cells than we do keeping them alive. In the United States, the two opposing models compete in the realms of culture and public policy. For most of U.S. history, the harsher punishment model has been so dominant that it is part of their international image. They are the country where they "hang 'em high." Only in an exceptional period does the principle and practice of redemption gain the upper hand. While the liberal, humanistic vision of human nature is that people are basically good, but are made bad by oppressive poverty, abuse, addiction, racism, and/or lack of opportunity, the Right's view is that people are bad by nature. Though it proved to be thought provoking to
Action was made by the conservatives due to lack of response from the liberals and a demand for more patrol officers, stricter sentences and an increase in executions. Even though the Liberals were opposed to the idea of the harsh reality of penalty by death and the courts ruling in the mid 1970s that briefly dismissed it, eventually Capital Punishment became the resolve to protecting society against criminals. Zoll argues that it comes down to three significant factors that support the act of Capital Punishment; Deterrent argument, Retaliation Argument and Moral Indignation Argument. In contrast, the liberal punishment model emphasizes the rights of the accused, humane (not "cruel and unusual") punishment, and rehabilitation of those convicted of a crime. Conservatives and rightists belittle this model as "soft on crime." Liberals would argue that capital punishment is simply state sponsored and funded government murder. Liberals would further state that the killing of prisoners by Capital Punishment removes any chance of rehab and bettering our society. They believe the US spends more money on killing, the appeals, and keeping them housed in death row cells than we do keeping them alive. In the United States, the two opposing models compete in the realms of culture and public policy. For most of U.S. history, the harsher punishment model has been so dominant that it is part of their international image. They are the country where they "hang 'em high." Only in an exceptional period does the principle and practice of redemption gain the upper hand. While the liberal, humanistic vision of human nature is that people are basically good, but are made bad by oppressive poverty, abuse, addiction, racism, and/or lack of opportunity, the Right's view is that people are bad by nature. Though it proved to be thought provoking to