1. Retribution (koch vs Bruck)
Killing convicted murderers satisfies valid retributive needs and desires either in society at large or in the specific victim. For this reason the death penalty cannot be viewed as excessive retribution. Immanuel Kant was a proponent of strong retribution. "Evil must be repaid with evil, a restoration of the moral balance. Whoever has committed murder must die, there is no juridical substitute or surrogate, that can be given or taken for the satisfaction of justice." Kant describes the death penalty as basic algebra. "If a murderer takes someone's life, then that negative equality must be balanced with the consequent of taking his life, another negative to balance to the equation." Kant also believed that if a wrongdoer has committed murder, "he must die. There is no substitute that will satisfy the requirements of legal justice. For there is no sameness of kind between death and remaining alive even under miserable conditions and consequently there is no equality between the crime and the retribution unless the criminal is judicially condemned and put to death.".
John Locke also defends the death penalty as being of appropriate retribution by arguing that a person forfeits his rights when committing even minor crimes. Once rights are forfeited, Locke justifies punishment such as "criminals deserve punishment, also that punishment is needed to protect our society by deterring crime through example. Thus society may punish the criminal any way it deems necessary so to set an example for other would-be criminals, including taking away his life.".
Ernest Van Den Haag supports the notion that the death penalty is suitable retribution. He believes that, "By committing the crime, the criminal volunteered to assume the risk of receiving a legal punishment he could have avoided by not committing the crime. The punishment he suffers is the punishment he voluntarily risked suffering and therefore it is no more unjust to him than any other event for which one knowingly volunteers to assume the risk.
The whole revenge and retribution subject matter is what makes the play so interesting and popular. ... Medea's pride drives her to excessive, vicious actions. ... Medea had excessive pride, and when it got damaged, people around her had to get damaged to exact it. ...
" Excessive thought highlights our human frailty, whether it's suicide or retribution. The emphatic statement "the native hue of resolution is sickled over with the pale" emphasises that the bold, bright "hue of resolution" turns sickly and pale as we overthink thus excessive contemplation paralyzes our ability to take necessary action. ... This soliloquy highlights his desire for retribution. ...
Initially, contrapasso refers to divine retribution for the sin. ... They are also covered in slime, portraying the excessive gluttony they lived in. ... Divine retribution is used as a threat for The Church and given a reason why the sin should be avoided. Dante used this divine retribution to aide his allegories. ...
Laertes allows excessive emotion and manipulation to influence his thoughts and actions. ... Therefore, much of his passivity could be interpreted as confidence in the prevailing theme of "seeming accident leading to just retribution" (Bevington 531). ... His excessive thought allows uncanny events to devise a necessary plan that coincides with his own desires. ...
Retribution refers to the penalty a society exacts for wrongful behavior. Retribution is another leading argument in the pro capital punishment movement. ... Proponents emphasize that retribution is not revenge, but the individual's desire for revenge replaced by a concept of lawful punishment. ... The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution states, "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." ...
Constitution added in 1791 which prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishment. ... Arguments In Favor of Capital Punishment (My Personal Favorite) First and foremost, the number one argument in favor of the Capital Punishment is the belief that society has a right to exact retribution from lawbreakers and that the best way to do this with murders and other vicious criminals is through capital punishment. ... George Barrel Cheever has argues, "There ought to be such a penalty, high, awfule, distinctive, to mark this crime [murder] in its ...
Here is a break down of the compared costs: While day by day expenses of a death penalty inmate are more excessive than those with life without parole, the cost of a death penalty inmate doesn't have the chance to multiply over 50 years. ... In the days of the Bible one said "an eye for an eye" just as we today say the same thing about justice or retribution. Retribution is a principle that runs through the Bible as a red thread. ...
"Under the Gregg decision, the prosecution uses the punishment-phase hearing to focus attention on the existence of "aggravating factors," such as excessive cruelty or a defendant's prior record. ... Sometimes retribution was cited as instrumental value, as in previous centuries."(Banner) Call it retribution, call it revenge, or an eye for and eye it doesn't really matter. ...