Death Penalty
The Death Penalty: Whose Choice Is it?
The death penalty is an issue that has continually created uneasiness between supporters and non-supporters ever since it started being used as punishment. The main argument is whether or not the death penalty serves as a justified and valid form of punishment. When the topic about the death penalty comes up, supporters from both sides start yelling out their arguments. You don 't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid severe punishments for serious crimes to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime. The truth is that there are very convincing arguments and many reasons on both sides of the argument. Even though the death penalty is practiced in many places around the world, does the good really outweigh the bad?
Families of murder victims are not unanimous about the death penalty. However, even families who have supported the death penalty in principal have testified that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative. At the same time, there are families of victims that want the criminal to experience what the victim experienced. But, whose call is it. Are the ways in which we use the death penalty, the ways in which we govern the use, and the circumstances in which it’s used the right or wrong way? There are many countries that have the death penalty, but nowhere is it debated so often as in the United States where each state can formulate its own policy surrounding the. 38 of the 50 states allow the death penalty as a sentence. Each of those states has advocates that fight for both sides of the argument. The principle of capital punishment is that certain murderers deserve nothing less than death as a just, proportionate and effective punishment. According to some, there are problems with the death penalty, but these are with its implementation rather than its principle. Murderers forfeit their rights as humans at the
The death penalty is an issue that has continually created uneasiness between supporters and non-supporters ever since it started being used as punishment. The main argument is whether or not the death penalty serves as a justified and valid form of punishment. When the topic about the death penalty comes up, supporters from both sides start yelling out their arguments. You don 't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid severe punishments for serious crimes to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime. The truth is that there are very convincing arguments and many reasons on both sides of the argument. Even though the death penalty is practiced in many places around the world, does the good really outweigh the bad?
Families of murder victims are not unanimous about the death penalty. However, even families who have supported the death penalty in principal have testified that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative. At the same time, there are families of victims that want the criminal to experience what the victim experienced. But, whose call is it. Are the ways in which we use the death penalty, the ways in which we govern the use, and the circumstances in which it’s used the right or wrong way? There are many countries that have the death penalty, but nowhere is it debated so often as in the United States where each state can formulate its own policy surrounding the. 38 of the 50 states allow the death penalty as a sentence. Each of those states has advocates that fight for both sides of the argument. The principle of capital punishment is that certain murderers deserve nothing less than death as a just, proportionate and effective punishment. According to some, there are problems with the death penalty, but these are with its implementation rather than its principle. Murderers forfeit their rights as humans at the
Cited: B., Phil. "Phil for Humanity". Phil for Humanity. August 20th, 2010 .