Search results
- Legality. The United States is one of 55 countries globally with a legal death penalty, according to Amnesty International. As of Mar. 24, 2021, within the US, 27 states had a legal death penalty (though 3 of those states had a moratorium on the punishment’s use).
- Life without Parole. Life without Parole (also called LWOP) is suggested by some as an alternative punishment for the death penalty. PRO. Proponents of replacing the death penalty with life without parole argue that imprisoning someone for the duration of their life is more humane than the death penalty, that LWOP is a more fitting penalty that allows the criminal to think about what they’ve done, and that LWOP reduces the chances of executing an innocent person.
- Deterrence. One of the main justifications for maintaining a death penalty is that the punishment may prevent people from committing crimes so as to not risk being sentenced to death.
- Retribution. Retribution in this debate is the idea that the death penalty is needed to bring about justice for the victims, the victims’ families, and/or society at large.
Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the changing nature of death penalty arguments in six specific areas: deterrence, incapacitation, caprice and bias, cost, innocence, and retribution.
The moral and ethical dimensions of the death penalty form a central battleground in the ongoing debate. Proponents argue that capital punishment serves as a just response to heinous crimes, offering retribution and closure to victims’ families.
Jun 21, 2023 · The nature of the death penalty debate has also changed in the past two decades. Radelet and Borg (2000) provided an exhaustive overview of the nature of the debate surrounding capital punishment.
Sep 10, 2020 · Drawing from the Canadian Election Study (2015) and the American National Election Study (2016), this article explores the underlying value systems that shape contemporary pro-death penalty opinions in Canada and in the United States.
- Marc‐Antoine Rancourt, Catherine Ouellet, Yannick Dufresne
- 1
- 2020
- 10 September 2020
I will also identify four problems arising from specific kinds of uncertainties present in current death penalty debates: (1) uncertainty in harm, (2) uncertainty in blame, (3) uncertainty in rights, and (4) uncertainty in causal consequences.
People also ask
What is the nature of the death penalty debate?
What are the four problems arising from the death penalty debates?
What are the moral and ethical dimensions of the death penalty?
Are there future developments in the death penalty debate?
Should the death penalty be legal?
Should the death penalty be retributed?
* Abstract Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the chang-ing nature of death penalty arguments in six specific areas: deterrence, incapacitation, caprice and bias, cost, innocence, and retribution.
