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The death penalty or 'permanent removal of an individual from society by the authorities, or to put it even more bluntly, the killing of an individual by the state authoritities has been in existence and has bedevilled legal systems all over the world from time immemorial. Sadly, in many countries, this is still the position.
Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the strongest punishment available to deter murder, and that is the death penalty. If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of losing their own life.
In what follows, I provide the rationale for both sides of the debate behind each of the main arguments. 2. Introducing the Six Arguments. In a recent article titled “Deadly Stakes: the Debate Over Capital Punishment,” 5 John O’Sullivan argues in favor of capital punishment.
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“Can we expect a decent society if the state is allowed to kill its own people?” — Coretta Scott King “The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is: ‘Do we deserve to kill?’” — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption “Capita...
“The State is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire.” — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, The Bet “Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary impos...
“True justice is restorative. It heals wounds. The death penalty only creates new wounds.” — Shane Claiborne, in a tweet “I can’t accept the judgment that killers need to be killed, a practice that merely perpetuates the cycle of violence.” — Bernice King “The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of...
“I learned the most important lesson of my life… I didn’t have to see somebody else die in order to bring healing.” — Bill Pelke, who lost his grandmother to murder by a group of teenagers “When Jeffrey was murdered, I wanted the men who killed him dead. I led the fight to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts in 1997. But time passes, and y...
“But secondly you say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.” ― Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man “The state should not be killing people. Not through militarism. Not by police. Not because of ICE. Not by medical negligence. And not by de...
Jul 18, 2023 · If the death penalty is indeed to completely disappear from Earth in the near future, that would be one of the most striking developments in the history of punishment and of human rights. However, in this article I aim to question and problematize that prediction.
- Ron Dudai
May 1, 2014 · Is the death penalty a viable deterrent to future crimes? Does the imposition of lesser penalties, such as life imprisonment, truly serve justice in cases of the worst offences?
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According to a 1986 Gallup Report, support for the death penalty in America has reached a nearrecord high in 50 years of polling, with 70 percent of Americans favoring execution of convicted murderers (Gallup, 1986).
