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Capital Punishment Punishment:
The deliberate and authorized causing of pain or harm to someone thought to have broken a rule, code, law etc.
Punishment Pain, harm or other
consequence normally considered unpleasant
Administered for an offense against a law or rule
Punishment must be administered to someone who is judged guilty of an offense.
Punishment must be imposed by someone other than the offender
Punishment must be imposed by rightful authority
Capital Punishment Four
Justifications for Punishment.
Retribution Deterrence Incapacitation Rehabilitation
Capital Punishment Retribution:
The view that offenders deserve to be punished for their crimes and to be punished in proportion to the severity of their offense.
Capital Punishment Deterrence: Inhibiting criminal
behavior by fear of punishment
General deterrence Focuses on general prevention of crime by making examples of specific offenders.
Specific deterrence Focuses on the individual in question. The aim of these punishments is to discourage the criminal from future criminal acts by instilling an understanding of the consequences.
Capital Punishment Incapacitatio
n Aims to
prevent future crimes by taking away the individual’s ability to commit such acts.
Capital Punishment Rehabilitation
: Aims to
reform the offender or rehabilitate them so they can reintegrate into society.
Capital Punishment Punishment by execution of
someone officially judged to have committed a serious or capital crime
Capital Punishment Two ways to look
at punishment. In terms of people
what people deserve
In terms of desirable consequences
Capital PunishmentAbolitionists: Those who wish to abolish capital punishment
Capital PunishmentRetentionists: Those who wish to retain the death penalty