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This 5 page paper looks at justifications for the death penalty, with a focus on Kant's ideas. Other theorists are referenced. Capital punishment is discussed in general and arguments include social control, deterrence and retribution. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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that only seems fair. But critics say that people who murder need help. They can be rehabilitated and contribute to society. The other side is "so what." Even if a
murderer can be rehabilitated, he or she has done a horrific thing. Any murderer should be given the ultimate punishment of death. It is only fair. The arguments about the
death penalty have gone on for some time. And in exploring each one of these arguments it is important to keep in mind that taking the life of one who
had taken anothers is the only right thing to do. It is pure justice. It makes things equal. Further, the data shows that it is difficult to rehabilitate the worst
offenders. What does one do with a Jeffrey Dahmer? Could he be taught not to eat people? And for the run of the mill thug, or gangsta of the twenty-first
century, can he be changed? Again, even if such an individual could be rehabilitated, why spend government money on a person who is so cruel that he or she can
take anothers life? The idea of the death penalty is obviously practical. If swift justice could be accomplished in this way, then who could argue with that idea? Of course,
capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Also, even for those who favor the death penalty, they wage different arguments. In A
Defense of the Death Penalty, Ernest van den Haag writes: "Sparing the lives of even a few prospective victims by deterring their murderers is more important than preserving the
lives of convicted murderers because of the possibility, or even the probability, that executing them would not deter others" (Rachels TRTTD 244). This view differs from many others on
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