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A 2 page examination of the objections to the death penalty voiced by author Leonard Pitts Jr. in the article “Fitting End to Death Penalty”. This paper approaches those objections from an ethical standpoint emphasizing that the death penalty is decided upon by the voters themselves who do so in consideration of the greater good. No additional sources are listed.
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Our societal decision as to how to deal with those individuals among us who have committed the most contestable
of crimes is one which has varied greatly over time. Currently one part of our society feels that putting an individual to death for crimes such as murder is
not only appropriate, it is a societal obligation. Others, however, view the morality of the death penalty as an issue of great complexity and as an issue in which
we must proceed very carefully in deciding right and wrong. Author Leonard Pitts Jr. is one of the latter of these individuals. In his article "Fitting End to
Death Penalty" Pitts outlines the societal dichotomy which is encapsulated by the topic of the death penalty. On the one hand we have those who have lost a loved
one to a murder and on the other we have wrongly incarcerated individuals who have later been proven to be innocent of the crimes of which they were accused and
convicted. Interestingly, Pitts himself has lost a family member to murder. This loss, however, has not resulted in him jumping on the bandwagon for the death penalty but
rather in him looking more closely at the issues surrounding that penalty. He contends that the greatest penalty which we should ever considering imposing as a society is imprisonment
for life without the chance of parole. The purpose of this paper is to consider Pitts argument from more of an analytical standpoint in terms of ethics. Ethics
have no real room for empathy but rather for a consideration of aspects of a dilemma as "greater societal good" and how natural law relates to the conflict which is
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