Capital Punishment

The United States along with China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, and Sudan are the only fully developed countries that utilize the death penalty as a form of punishment. Why only six countries among thirty-four develop countries continue to use the death penalty as a form of punishment? The issue is whether capital punishment should continue to be a form of punishment or has society taken a new view about the death penalty. Capital punishment is a highly immoral penalty that needs to be abolished from our society. Our society circulates many arguments and reasoning, such as the Utilitarian theory, that suggest people need to work to obtain a greater good regardless of the means. On the other hand, numerous counterarguments suggest through Kant’s Categorical Imperative that the end results of the death penalty are not justifiable for any reason. Kant’s moral reasoning implies that people should not be treated as means, but as ends.

In this blog, I will provide a detailed analysis on moral dilemmas and provide supporting arguments and counterarguments regarding the death penalty. Some arguments that I will be discussing are issues regarding its ability to deter crime and the accuracy of the law in which people are incarcerated. I strongly believe that the death penalty is a violation of our human rights and should be abolished from our society.