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This 4 page paper provides an overview of the arguments by Pojman regarding the death penalty and then the writer provides his own perspective on the issue. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Louis Pojman makes both of those arguments in favor of the use of the death penalty in a civil society. It is Pojman contention that the criminal who has
committed a crime so heinous that he faces the death penalty is getting his "just desert." Pojman effectively sites Immanuel Kant at the beginning of his argument, who stated
that when a person does something evil to others, he is also doing that evil to himself. "If you rob him, you rob yourself; if you slander him, you
slander yourself; if you strike him, you strike yourself; and if you kill him, you kill yourself" (Kant, as cited by Pojman 1). Though Kant was speaking rhetorically, Pojman
utilizes this quote as a part of his argument that those who kill should also be killed. Pojman does not dispute that there are killers among us and
that killers should be punished. He outlines the fact that the death penalty is strategy for punishment, based on the determination of guilt. When a person has committed
the ultimate crime of murder, Pojman maintains, he should receive no treatment less than what has done to another. Even life in prison is not adequate from Pojmans perspective,
and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence no likeness between the crime and
retribution unless death is judicially carried out upon the wrongdoer..." (8). Pojman describes this as the retributive approach, or giving the criminal his just desert. Pojman further states
that this type of desert "grounds a just society" (15). The other approach that Pojman takes is the utilitarian perspective, or the belief that society would be
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