Immanuel Kant's Arguments Against Capital Punishment
ENG 111
23rd April 2013
The freedom to live
During the ancient times before imprisonment, there were executions and executions only which were rather completed by stoning. There were consisted of several reasons as to why the capital punishment was needed. The United States inherited its use of capital punishment from the European settlers in the seventeenth century but in the eighteenth century, German philosopher Immanuel Kant appealed that execution was the “fairest punishment for murder”. He presented that it is the most suitable punishment for those who have committed murder and that a person who has done wrong should suffer for it. Arguing that killers should “die in order to gain release from their suffering”, including that the crime must fit the punishment. Arguments against the death penalty expose capital punishment for what some believe is a reasonable punishment, while others view it as revenge disguised as justice but …show more content…
It is the “premeditated and cold-blooded killing of a human being by the state”. Half the amounts of US States have banned the death penalty for example New York, finding it unconstitutional. In Just Revenge by Mark Costanzo, he states that most Americans are supportive of the death penalty in the abstract by simply wanting the government to take care of it, “cleanly and efficiently, in a distant prison”. He questions that “is it morally acceptable to subject murderers to psychological torture before we kill them?”. While others assure it is a harsh, inhuman and undignified punishment done “in the name of justice”, including that inflicting punishment on wrongdoers discourages others from wrong doing. Some may say that the death penalty is a way to lash back at those who have harmed us, but cooperatively we must be more reasonable and humane than those who commit the act
23rd April 2013
The freedom to live
During the ancient times before imprisonment, there were executions and executions only which were rather completed by stoning. There were consisted of several reasons as to why the capital punishment was needed. The United States inherited its use of capital punishment from the European settlers in the seventeenth century but in the eighteenth century, German philosopher Immanuel Kant appealed that execution was the “fairest punishment for murder”. He presented that it is the most suitable punishment for those who have committed murder and that a person who has done wrong should suffer for it. Arguing that killers should “die in order to gain release from their suffering”, including that the crime must fit the punishment. Arguments against the death penalty expose capital punishment for what some believe is a reasonable punishment, while others view it as revenge disguised as justice but …show more content…
It is the “premeditated and cold-blooded killing of a human being by the state”. Half the amounts of US States have banned the death penalty for example New York, finding it unconstitutional. In Just Revenge by Mark Costanzo, he states that most Americans are supportive of the death penalty in the abstract by simply wanting the government to take care of it, “cleanly and efficiently, in a distant prison”. He questions that “is it morally acceptable to subject murderers to psychological torture before we kill them?”. While others assure it is a harsh, inhuman and undignified punishment done “in the name of justice”, including that inflicting punishment on wrongdoers discourages others from wrong doing. Some may say that the death penalty is a way to lash back at those who have harmed us, but cooperatively we must be more reasonable and humane than those who commit the act