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Imagine a man who commits murder, and is given a fifteen year jail sentence and is returned to the streets where he kills again. He is imprisoned again only to be released. This could happen since almost one in ten death row inmates has been convicted of murder at least once. That means that some death row inmates have had more than one opportunity to rehabilitate, yet continue to commit crimes. Should the U.S. justice system continue to let violent criminals back on the streets where they are likely to commit murder again? Capital punishment is one of the oldest forms of punishment. Most societies have thought it to be fair punishment for severe crimes. American colonists used capital punishment before the U.S. was a country, and most states still use it today. Currently, however, there has been a controversy surrounding the death penalty. Capital cases are long and expensive, and there are arguments in support and against capital punishment as a deterrent. If the laws concerning capital punishment were modified so that it would become consistent, perhaps then it would be effective. But if that took place, would capital punishment be morally permissible? From a utilitarian standpoint, some crimes are so outrageous,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. So the word murder cannot be used to describe executions since the death penalty is the law. It forever bars a murderer from killing again. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. If the death penalty was just as consistent, lethal, and unstoppable as the AIDS virus, criminals would actually have reason to back down. our regard for it, by the adoption of a rule that he who violates that right in another forfeits it for himself and that while no other crime he can commit deprives him of his right to live, this shall" (Siegel, 66). Comparing executions to murders is like comparing incarcerating people to kidnapping or charging taxes to extortion. such as murder, that it is by enacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life that society affirms the highest value of human life. For example, Dawned Mu'Min who was serving a 48-year sentence for the 1973 murder of a cab driver when he escaped a road work gang and stabbed to death a storekeeper in a 1988 robbery. Capital punishment must be used consistently in order to be effective. Dismissing capital punishment on that basis requires one to eliminate all prisons as well because they don't seem to be any more effective in the deterrence of crime. Abolitionists will claim that most studies show that the death penalty had no effect on the murder rate at all. Laws change, so do parole boards, and people forget the past. One argument states that the death penalty doesn't deter crime.
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