What are the arguments against capital punishments?

Answer 1

Arguments Against Capital Punishment

[Quote]There are a number of arguments. The most obvious of these is simply that sometimes the police and the courts can make a mistake. There have been cases when people sentenced to life imprisonment have later been proved innocent and released. Dead people can't be released.[Quote]

True, but would you rather spend 70 years in prison and have your life ruind. or be put to death witch is quick and easy. you cant apologise to someone for wasting their whole life..

Answer 2

For: Revenge. Repeat offence not possible. Deterrent. Capital Punishment, if speedy, does not subject the state or federal governments to the costs of prolonged imprisonment. Punishment for wrongdoing against the society and culture and violation of religious infusion in the culture reinforces the authority of the state in relationship to the individual. Demonstrates the power of the state in its relationship to the subjects, i.e., the individual members.

Against: Legal system is not 100% effective; accused might be not guilty, dispite best efforts of the legal system which found person guilty, thus subject to the sentence of death; increasing number of inmates on "death row" in USA shows deterrent factor ineffective; revenge is contrary to the spirit of an enlightend judicial system which recognizes that capital punishment does not correct the problem in the first place.

Answer 3

Capital Punishment remains controversial with it being a banned practice across the European Union, while active and legal in the United States and People's Republic of China as of 2014. The argument against capital punishments revolve around human rights, dignity and cruelty questions. There are also the questions of executing innocents, which has/does occur. The arguments for are based on the principal of retribution (Lex talionosis) against the most violent and heinous of offenders. Lastly, proponents of the death penalty also claim its use as a deterrent to the commission of capital crimes. .

Answer 4

The #1 argument in favor of the death penalty is Retribution. In Debating the Death Penalty, Why the Death Penalty is Morally Permissible, by Louis P. Pojman goes into great detail in arguing for it and provides some other pro-arguments. He makes the distinction between retribution and revenge, revenge being emotional and having no upward limit. If you go to Wikipedia and search Capital Punishment Debate, there are sections on the arguments for the death penalty, and specifically a Retribution section with references to several articles you could read to get more in depth information.

Answer 5

these are some of the arguments against capital punishment:

v people have been killed but later found innocent

v it's more expensive to give someone a death sentence than to keep them in jail

v not a good deterrence

v more murders happen where there are more executions

v 138 people have been exonerated while on death row

These are some arguments in favor of capital punishment

· when people have done really bad things why pay for them to have food and a bed

· they did such bad things, jail isn't enough

Answer 6

There are several arguments for the use of the death penalty such as more humane than other forms of punishment, life imprisonment changes, cost, necessity, the fairness of the death row process, removal of a threat to society,religious doctrine, deterrent to crime,retribution and justice. They are top 10 arguments for death penalty.

Answer 7

its against the human moral and its not right for some one to take someones life as a consiquence of them killing someone else. Its the same thing