1. Argumentaitve Essay - The Death Penalty
Presently, laws enforced upon society create controversy over if the rulings made are the morally correct decisions. ... While utilitarianism would view the consequence of killing the criminal as unjust because it makes the criminal suffer, I think a utilitarian would still think the death penalty is moral because the benefit it creates is greater than its consequences. ... In order to decide if the death penalty is just or unjust; utilitarianism has to question whether the death penalty is effective in preventing future crimes compared to life imprisonment. ...
We may not like the death penalty, but it must be available to punish crimes of cold-blooded murder, cases in which any other form of punishment would be inadequate and, therefore, unjust. ... Koch argues, justice requires that the law be applied equally to all. ...
But then there are the other number of people who feel the death penalty should be banned because of its cruel and unjust way of punishment. ... If someone is executed, our court system is deliberately defying our Lord's laws. ... But then there are the other number of people who feel the death penalty should be banned because of its cruel and unjust way of punishment. ... If someone is executed, our court system is deliberately defying our Lord's laws. ...
I believe there is too much room for error in this law and it is too serious. ... All of the topics and theories I have covered in this essay, (race, utilitarian theory, retributivism theory and error) portray the negative attributes that contribute to an unjust and unfair system. ...
When the case was won more than 600 death row inmates who were sentenced between 1967 and 1972 had their lives spared because the United States Supreme Court ruled that the capital punishment laws were "arbitrary and capricious." ... If the death of innocents because of judicial error is unjust, so is the death of innocents by murder....
Supporters of capital punishment, for example, contend that this punishment deters people from killing law enforcement officers. ... Many Christians began to accept the death penalty as permissible for the sake of justice, and for the sake of law and order that might prevent violence. ...
It goes against the Nation's policy to enact something as unjust as the death penalty into our justice system. ... "A 1982 study in New York found that under the state's death penalty law each prosecution would cost taxpayers over $1.8 million through the first level of appeal. ...
The Law says that humans have inalienable rights that existed outside of and before government. ... It is evident, then that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder," (Bastiat 24-26). ... After all, if the law is set up to protect our right to live, it seems as though it should be able to keep convicted murderers from murdering again. ... Of course, there is a possibility of wrongly sending an innocent man to prison, or wrongly fining an...
Annotated Bibliography The Death Penalty for Juveniles The following research draws upon different opinions and perceptions for and against the further enactment of the death penalty for juvenile offenders. The various articles that are presented draw conclusions on the pros and cons of using the death penalty as punishment for young offenders. Numerous views surfaced in my research such as the views of president Bush, prominent authors and court officials as well as the views of individual states. In order to fully evaluate this sensitive topic I have presented a mixture of opposing p...