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. ...
A bill to restore the death penalty almost passed as law in 1987; however Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had opposed the bill and it has not been brought back up since. ... The need for capital punishment is vital in our society, it is in the best interest of the majority of the population and it supports positive law. ... This will make it more likely for people to follow the law, if they know that they too might be sentenced to death. ... "There is no sin in administering punishment for those individuals who refuse to obey God's law" (Thomas Aquinas), any action necessary to ...