Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished
Should the Death Penalty be abolished?
Thomas Adam
PHI 103
Kurt Mosser
February 13, 2011
Introduction
Capital punishment is the execution, as a punishment for a person convicted of committing a heinous crime against humanity. Crimes that are known as capital crimes or capital offences enforce capital punishment; crimes against humanity, drug trafficking resulting in loss of life, terrorism, murder, kidnapping resulting loss of life, etc. are considered capital offences.
In this argumentative paper, I will argue, why the death penalty should never be abolished. I will also argue why the death penalty is morally right. Life in prison without parole should never be an option when heinous crimes are committed. This topic has been a concoverisal issue for many years.
Both sides of this topic have many different opinions. Many people believe that the practice in question is always wrong, against those who believe that the practice is sometimes justified or even mandatory.
Pro- Death Penalty
Retributivism requires the practice of capital punishment. Retibutivism is a theory of punishment. Retributivists are justified in punishing persons when and only when they deserve to be punished. When a person is morally blameworthy they must suffer the sanction; punishment.
The correct doctrinal triggers for liability and questions about how much offenders should be punished for certain crimes when done with levels of culpability.
The prevention of vigilante justice is presented as the real good retributivism. The state and government must punish those who deserve it. This will satisfy the people needs for feeling that they have not been deceived, thus restraining themselves from criminal action. I believe, retribution id the only solution for taken another life. “An eye of an eye”.
Kant’s theory pints out: “The evil that a wrongdoer inflicts is the measure of how severely he or she should be punished”. Retributivist theory holds not only that criminal guilt
Thomas Adam
PHI 103
Kurt Mosser
February 13, 2011
Introduction
Capital punishment is the execution, as a punishment for a person convicted of committing a heinous crime against humanity. Crimes that are known as capital crimes or capital offences enforce capital punishment; crimes against humanity, drug trafficking resulting in loss of life, terrorism, murder, kidnapping resulting loss of life, etc. are considered capital offences.
In this argumentative paper, I will argue, why the death penalty should never be abolished. I will also argue why the death penalty is morally right. Life in prison without parole should never be an option when heinous crimes are committed. This topic has been a concoverisal issue for many years.
Both sides of this topic have many different opinions. Many people believe that the practice in question is always wrong, against those who believe that the practice is sometimes justified or even mandatory.
Pro- Death Penalty
Retributivism requires the practice of capital punishment. Retibutivism is a theory of punishment. Retributivists are justified in punishing persons when and only when they deserve to be punished. When a person is morally blameworthy they must suffer the sanction; punishment.
The correct doctrinal triggers for liability and questions about how much offenders should be punished for certain crimes when done with levels of culpability.
The prevention of vigilante justice is presented as the real good retributivism. The state and government must punish those who deserve it. This will satisfy the people needs for feeling that they have not been deceived, thus restraining themselves from criminal action. I believe, retribution id the only solution for taken another life. “An eye of an eye”.
Kant’s theory pints out: “The evil that a wrongdoer inflicts is the measure of how severely he or she should be punished”. Retributivist theory holds not only that criminal guilt
Bibliography: Punishment, Theory, Theories, Criminal, Punish, and Deserve. www.law.jranlk.org retrieved from Google on Feb 6, 2011 Students against the Death Penalty-Home www.studentabolition.org retrieved from Google on Feb 7, 2011 http://orgs.law.ucla.edu/LTW/Documents/Week%20%20-%20Reading/Steiker%20-%20The%20Death%20Penalty%20and%Deontology.pdf www.orgs.law.ucla.edu Retrieved from Google Feb 10, 2011