Capital Punishment - How Morally Correct Is It?

When someone that is close to you is hurt, it not only hurts them but it also affects you. We sympathize with the ones that we love and knowing that someone you love is suffering will make us suffer just as much. If another being hurts or kills someone that we care for it can make us go to certain extremes that can distress us mentally and sometimes even physically. As humans we all want revenge, we may not accept it and people that believe in “God” would deny feeling remorse or hate. I strongly believe that all of us can only forgive to a certain extent.

Capital punishment is morally correct. It gives the victims or relatives of the victims some sort of justice. I don’t think that it will justify the event that has all ready happened or that it will make the victims feel at ease, but it helps us to know that someone can actually put a stop to the monster that has already attacked. There are certain types of criminals. Those who are put on death row with enough evidence leading to their punishments should pay for the actions that they have done. I also believe that if capital punishment was used more there would be lower crime rate. A lot of criminals are convicted with murder or rape and then a couple of years later the justice system releases them back into society stating that they are “recovered”. I don’t want to stereotype or prejudge but the majority of these criminals will be back in prison for the exact same thing, except by then it is too late someone has been killed or someone else has been victimized!

The retributive theory in the justice system gives victims a sense of revenge. Although, C.L. Ten states that, “There is no complete agreement about what sorts of theories are retributive except that all such theories try to establish an essential link between punishment and moral wrongdoing.” However, we can characterize it as a principle of equality. Retributivism holds that punishment is a crucial consequence of a crime but the punishment we impose on a person should be determined by the type of crime they have committed.

The deterrence