Life Without Parole
Taking man’s life is never a solution to attain justice. Life is very essential and important. All of us has our own right to live. We must value life just how it is given no matter what and where the situation takes us. There is no other reason that man’s life must be taken aside from illness and sickness. When someone committed a crime, there are several consequences that corresponds to all of his actions, but, whatever they have done something against the law, they don’t have the right to take one’s life in exchange. Is it really possible to take one’s life to pay the other one? Some people are quite satisfied by a lifetime imprisoning in exchange of the crime instead of having the conscience. Though, other people does not want that kind of consequence for their loved ones who became the victim that suffered. They think that the only way that the victim’s peace will be the death of the suspect. That scheme is called death penalty. Is it really acceptable that justice must be done in taking one’s life? For us, it must be avoided and abolish because first of all,
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Why do we say so? We say so, because we believe that if you kill someone who did something wrong then you made yourself like a criminal too. You will just turn yourself into a murderer instead of being a justice provider. In conquering justice for victim, other people does not have the right to punish the suspect in their own hands. Let’s say that it’s part of their law to give penalty in killing or taking man’s life. Let’s say that it’s legal in their country but that’s an invalid reason to take their lives. Death penalty is such a lame excuse in seeking justice. Aside from that when there’s no such enough evidence that it’s really his crime, death is not the solution. You might just commit mistake. Remember, you can’t correct a mistake by replacing it by another
I'm not for killing people because we're (the government/prisons) killing people to show that killing isn't right and that makes zero sense but it should be somewhat fair make his life hell, or something he shouldn't get just life in prison he should have to work hard and want to get
Thus bringing in to account the principle of lex talionis. Which is the right to be paid back with similar harm and the equality of persons. Meaning an eye for an eye, they deserve it because they did it therefore intimidating people from murdering because they don’t want to die. It is also to be said through Kantian ethics that a rational individual who kills another authorizes his own execution. Executing murderers sets as a statement that murder is absolutely evil and will not be tolerated.
Whether a criminal is guilty of committing murder or any other capital offense, they should all be given the same sentence - life in prison. How is it fair to allow them to voluntarily choose the death penalty over prison? Criminals willingly sought to break the law and should endure the lifelong debt they owe not only to society but to the family of the innocent victims whose lives have been taken. As asserted by Robert Johnson, a professor of justice and law, and Sandra Smith, a professor of legal studies, death by incarceration is a more effective and suitable form of punishment than the death penalty (Cromie and Zott 174). Although some might argue that it is unfair to keep a criminal alive, they fail to understand that the freedom they once had is permanently lost.
The process is needed to ensure that the innocent men and woman are not executed for crimes they did not commit, and even if those protections the risk of executing an innocent person can not be complete eliminated. According to the reporter of working for alternative to the death penalty, in the article The High Cost of the Death Penalty, “If the death penalty was replaced with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole”, (1). Basically the reporter is stating that it will cost millions of dollars less and ensure that the public will be protected while trying to eliminating the risks of irreversible mistake with money when the money could be used on
Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is a legal process in which a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime by the government of a nation. The United States is in the minority group of nations that uses the death penalty. There are thirty-three states that allow capital punishment and seventeen states that abolished it (Death Penalty Information Center). The morality of the death penalty has been debated for many years. Some people want capital punishment to be abolished due to how it can cost a lot more than life imprisonment without parole, how they think it is immoral to kill, and how innocent people can be put to death.
The Eighth Amendment states that punishments should be fair and cannot be cruel. In the summer of 2012, Supreme Court ruled that juveniles who have committed murder cannot be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole because of violation of the Eighth Amendment. However, young adults or juveniles should be given life without parole when committing a serious crime. If teens can commit crimes knowing there will be consequences then they should be prepared to face them. Many juveniles will fight against receiving jail time by saying, they are depressed, or have not reached a full level of maturation.
Russ Shafer-Landau provides us with two separate arguments about the death penalty in his academic book The Ethical Life, fundamental readings in ethics and moral problems. In the first argument, Justifying Legal Punishment, Igor Primoratz gives us substantive reasoning that opts favorably toward the necessity of the death penalty. Contrasting Primoratz, Stephen Nathanson, through An Eye for an Eye, provides us with an argument that hopes to show us that capital punishment, like murder, is also immoral and therefore, unjust. By the end of this essay, I intend to show that while capital punishment may not be the easy choice for a consequence and punishment to murder, it is, however, the necessary one.
Some deserve it because they non-repentance killers or to be serial killers while other should not deserve it because of the circumstances required them. Juveniles who killed people without any mercy should be treated as an adult and be given Juvenile Life Without Parole(JLWOP). For example, the murderer of Jennifer Jenkins’ pregnant sister and her husband. Jennifer describes, “[Jenkins’s Sister] begged for the life of her unborn child as [the killer] shot her. He reported to a friend, who testified at his trial, about his ‘thrill kill’ that he just wanted to ‘see what it would feel like to shoot someone’”(Jenkins).
Killing another seems very unjustifiable, which might be the case but when someone takes another 's life and sent to prison, death row or capital punishment is needed to put that person were they belong. People like that deserve to die because of their mistake of killing another and it deters other people to not kill others, showing them what would happen. In the case of Capital Punishment, Hunting for Sport, or George and Lennie, killing is a justifiable act. In the case of capital punishment killing is justified and needs to be done. For example, “Some crimes are so inherently evil they demand strict penalties up to and including death”(McClatchy).
In society, the biggest moral taboo a man can commit is the act of murder. As such, many law codes and religions treat murderers with the highest form of punishment (Capital punishment in the United States, the Mark of Cain in the Bible etc.). However, in some situations it is right to kill people because it can prevent a person from causing harm to society, and can prevent a person who is ill from further suffering. There are some people in history who actively seek to disrupt the well being of their own society; therefore, in many of these cases the act of execution is justified.
Even though it is true that taking the life of another is not right, it is even truer that the punishment should fit the crime. The death penalty is an exercise of justice that promotes retribution for crime and moral punishment for those who choose to take human life. Also, it prevents society 's worse offenders from re-offending, and it provides justice for the victims whose lives were cut short without a second thought. To better understand why capital punishment is a justifiable act, Kant 's theory gives a clear and logical understanding of the eye for an eye approach. Additionally the utilitarian view also explains why capital punishment is justifiable in regards to comfort for the victim 's family and prevention of re-offending.
Out of the thousands of murders that take place in the United States, it is very unlikely to be given the death penalty. The punishment is meant more for never before seen cases that proves the insanity of a person, rather than to someone who only killed one person. This type of discipline could be described as inhumane. Killing a person for their mistake of murdering a human is considered very hypocritical. Killing after all is a sin and is immensely frowned upon from a religious perspective.
It is understandable that society seeks justice when some form of crime is committed, more specifically murder. Often people think with a heavy burden in their hearts seeking the most severe form of punishment, in most cases the death penalty. For a few reasons I do not agree with this form of punishment. Morally, what are we teaching society when handing down a death penalty verdict? Justice should not be sought out in vengeance for the sake of an eye for an eye on the part of the victim, family members, and community, instead lets offer restorative justice.
Each year in many countries around the world people are murdered in the name of “justice”. But can justice really include a sanitised form of revenge? Many people are for the death penalty regardless of what it actually is. A major way that the death penalty is flawed is shown in the amount of innocent people who are sentenced to death.
Why death penalty must end ‘’An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,’’ said Mahatma Gandhi. The execution of someone who has possibly done a crime is an inhuman act. Death penalty is hypocritical and flawed. If killing is wrong, why do we kill when a criminal has done the crime of killing someone? In this essay, I will write why death penalty should end by writing about the violation of human rights, execution of innocent people, the fact that it does not deter crime and money.