What Is The Death Penalty Utilitarianism

The death penalty in American society using the teleological argument is that Utilitarianism is a part of the teleological ethical system. Utilitarianism is the ethical system that claims that the greatest good is that which results in the greatest happinesss for the greatest number. In a teleological viewpoint or argument, they focus more so on the consequences rather than the action being made. Utilitarianism theory would view the death penalty or capital punishment as being good or being moral. I think utilitarianism looks at the death penalty as moral because the main focus in utilitarianism is looking at the greatest happiness of the person. When you think of the teleological viewpoint it is also known as the ends justify the means.
According to utilitarianism, punishing or treating the criminal offender benefits society and this benefits outweighs the negative effects on the individual offender. This is a teleological argument because the morality of the punishment is determined by the consequences derived reduced crime (Pollock 327). According to Bentham, he believed that punishment works when it is applied rationally to rational people but is not acceptable when the person did not make a rational decision to commit the crime, such as when the law forbidding the action was passed after the action occurred, the law was unknown, the person was acting under compulsion, or the person was an infant, insane or intoxicated (Pollock 327).