Capital Punishment Essay: Denial Of Autonomy

Capital punishment falls in three of the objectification properties. Those three are denial of autonomy, violability, and lastly, ownership. Let’s beginning with denial in autonomy. Denial of autonomy is defined as the treatment a person as lacking autonomy and self determination, in other words the person denied to make decisions on their own. In capital punishment, the individual who is being sentence to “death” is being denied their right to live. They are denied their autonomy. Although, it was discussed in class that too much autonomy is not a good thing, I find this case to immorally wrong.
As we continue with violability, violability is defined as the treatment of a person lacking in bodily and life integrity. In this case, the person is giving away their perfectly healthy life, in return society is receiving
gratification of seeing that individual who caused harmed to their loved one’s punished. Again, this is morally wrong because as I mentioned in my previous report, no one has the right to dictate if you live or die and this takes me to my next point, denial of subjectivity.
Denial of subjectivity is defined as the treatment of a person as something whose experiences and feelings, if any are not to be taken to account.
In other words, your feelings don't matter. For example, if a man committed a crime where they killed a vast amount of innocent suvillans and is sentenced to death role, after committing that crime, that man’s feelings don't matter anymore. He is denied subjectivity because of the crime he committed. I don't believe this morally wrong because everything you comes with a consequence. Therefore, if you knew what you were doing and knew that it was morally wrong, than you should accept the consequences. Something that we need to take into consideration is that in cases of capital punishment, subjectivity can’t be involved. Why? well because that we would have to take into consideration of everyone’s feelings and or feelings sometimes causes us to my impulsive decisions. I recently read an article by BS Murthy, Abolition of Capital Punishment: Objectification of subjectivity (21-Sep-2011) and it emphasized on subjectivity in capital punishment and how subjectivity can cause unjustness in a court of
law.
In conclusion, this moral framework still brings conflict into this dilemma because there never is a right or wrong. As much as we don't want to and we want to proceed with laws, one way or another we still find ourselves involving subjectivity and subjectivity is a big contributor to this situation because if we deny the criminal there autonomy than we are also denying their subjectivity however, if we deny our autonomy and than not only are we deny our subjectivity however we our denying the victims subjectivity. Therefore, we return to the fact that in capital punishment there never is a right and wrong answer so we just have to go with whats best fit to the situation.