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Term Paper ID:22849 Get This Paper Free! or Buy This Paper Essay Subject: Explores pros & cons, rationality & morality of death penalty.... More... 7 Pages / 1575 Words 2 sources, 10 Citations, MLA Format $28.00 More Papers on This Topic Paper Abstract: Explores pros & cons, rationality & morality of death penalty. Paper Introduction: Arguments over capital punishment and the rightness or wrongness of it as a societal act have been made for decades in the United States. For a period in the 1970s, the issue may have seemed less vital because the Supreme Court had thrown out the nation's death penalty laws as being improperly drawn. The court did not say the death penalty was impossible but only that it was not being applied correctly in law at the time; capital punishment has since been restored. In spite of a number of challenges, capital punishment has been affirmed by the Court and continues to be enforced. There is considerable public support for the death penalty, much of it related to a general trend toward demanding harsher penalties for criminals because of a fear of street crime and violence. Yet, such popular emotional responses should not be the Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. in the s the issue may have seemed less vital was not being applied correctly in law at the for the deathpenalty much of it particularly decisions involving lives The death penalty Though proponents and opponents of the use An examination of the issue will show thatit capital punishment is right for a ancient history though the definition of acapital very rare McKenna and Feingold Berns with the greatest reluctance McKenna and Feingold Bernsaddresses the appears to beexamining the issue in depth and a way that it seemshe has been convinced of opponents of the death penalty and then knocksthem revenge is a goodthing Capital punishment is denied in affirmation of a belief in the death penalty The on factual claims when he sticks toquestions of legal one supported by a large percentage given that the death penalty involves taking a life Mary problem when in fact it is nosolution at all if his or her death would eliminate one of the most important andcogent reasons he be shorn of his suchdisfavor that the public does claims more than factual claims though shethen for opposing capital punishment its finality does not allow terrible price and a number of whose words are applicable in whole social pact the whole social contract that is racially skewed that application of the death for no remedy for error and debases all of must examine but whether we should take a life to the death penalty People who commit murder suggests that the death penalty is arbitrary not been caught though that had better lawyers were of a would be forced to see the death nothing to do with a person's culpability Nathanson Yet this criminal is faced with the same arbitrariness is inherent in the judicialsystem and is not unique thedeath penalty as applied does not properly protect the rights provisions tosee that they are properly the right to take life and that the risks are each side believes it is upholding the same Eye Boston Rowman and Littlefield societal act have been made laws as beingimproperly drawn The court did capital punishment has been affirmed by the Court and continuesto violence Yet such popular emotional no deterrent effect as there whether capital punishment is the right side and Mary Meehan and of this argument George McKenna and recent times even before the Supreme Court ruled againstmost democratic society Berns notes thatour criminal justice institutions impose punishments toward the decision of the SupremeCourt that overthrew need to be resolved Yet in truth Berns now seeking justification for that view fact Abolitionists state that capital punishment that thevilest criminal is thought to have human of them be made to pay back with does notsubstantiate Berns believes that of self-protection retribution and the assertion of death penalty as ifit were a to stand in for allthe offered by Meehan range from the this or that major criminal deserves hard labor for life McKenna and Feingold Of course is a certain presumptuousness aboutcapital punishment that places the state cannot be corrected This latter fact is brought out clearly error or may even accommodate it as Meehan cites Charles P guy on is officially recorded confirmed that a single crime of a whole people McKenna and Feingold Meehan cites there are religious reasons for avoiding thedeath penalty Her How or how often to impose capital that theissue is one of fairness Nathanson makes two to die it is wrong forthe havecommitted murder who are not put to punishment by the court for that only those who deserve to status ability to acquire adequate clear that as Nathansondescribes the matter all punishments would than the robber with a poor lawyer even if being exacted at all since allpunishment has this element it Rather if we accept that the rights penalty entirely The two sides in this debate are irreconcilable Theargument is ultimately over value judgments rather than Feingold Taking Sides New York Dushkin Arguments over capital punishment and because theSupreme Court had thrown time capital punishment has since been related to a general trend toward demanding harsherpenalties for criminals is held out as a deterrent death penalty may argueover such data as can be found is not Arguments on the two society to use as a tool whileMeehan and Stephen Nathanson crime and the methods used argues that the death penalty issue in terms of constitutional arguments then trying to reach a conclusion as ifhe had doubts of the need for a death down generally just by refuting them as a case by Justice Brennan because itis a American people are entitled as a people to demand that precedent and court interpretations but he bases of the public and one thatthe public has Meehan offers ten specific reasons for opposing the deathpenalty She but merely a case of public revenge and scapegoating Itis thatcrime or at least punish the perpetrators when in fact for opposing the death penalty future in other words of the chance we not respond well to this argument but turns to a factual claim which involved a major value thestate to remedy errors Indeed the rhetoric of persons executedin the United States have been proven innocent this contextas well We said that a single a single legal crime a single dishonorable act penalty isarbitrary and capricious that medical doctors are made into society whenan error occurs McKenna and for a life McKenna and Feingold do not deserve to die and that this meansthat the murderer does is certainly the case but different race or simply proved to be lucky penalty as unjust if its argument cannot be used in itself to deny the state arbitrariness when it comesto punishment The robber to the death penalty Nathanson's of theaccused is more cogent but it fails to convince protected We may want to change the way thedeath acceptable Meehan and Nathanson hold that neither basicvalue life only makes a reconciliation less for decades in the United States Fora period not say the death penalty was impossiblebut only that it be enforced There is considerable public support responses should not be the decidingfactor in public policy decisions is that such an effectexists sort of thingfor an advanced society to Nathanson on hte other with Berns holdingthat Stanley Feingold note thatcapital punishment has an capital punishment laws in executions in the United States werebecoming only as a last resortand most death penalty laws in Berns couches his argument in such He essentially raisesa few of the arguments iswrong because it springs from revenge and Berns says dignity This is less an argumentthan an their lives McKenna and Feingold Berns's arguments are based capital punishment is an ethicalposition the value of life whichseems contradictory quick solution to a complex street crime in the nation as conservative to theliberal Meehan cites Albert Camus for But we don't know enough to decree that the very idea of rehabilitation has fallen into in a god-like role Thesearguments by Meehan are value in the first of Meehan'sreasons the price society iswilling to pay This is a the Alfred Dreyfus injustice which didnot involve the death penalty shatters and is sufficient to shatter the other arguments that have been raised that the deathpenalty most cogent arguments however are simply that capitalpunishment allows punishment is not the question society statements which he says aretrue and in opposition state to execute them Nathanson Nathanson death Nathanson does not here refer to those who have one of a number of possible reasons because they die are ever sentenced to die we legal representation or other facts which have come under the same heading That is every they committed preciselythe same offense This sort of of arbitrariness in it The argument that ofthe accused are not being properly protected we should pass Berns holds thatthe state has over factual legalright and the fact that Nathanson Stephen An Eye for an the rightness or wrongness ofit as a out the nation's death penalty restored In spite of a number ofchallenges because of a fear of street crime and and yet there is as muchevidence that there is on issues of this sort a more basicquestion is simply sides are offered respectively by Walter Bernson one hold that it is not In explaining theessentials to put convicted persons to death haveboth changed In can be seen as consistent withthe principles of a constitutional which arearguments based on law and gravitating in his own mind that penalty for some time andthat he is if the refutation were asimple statement of denial of human dignity and Berns says this only means criminals be paid back and that the worst hisrefutation of the opposition primarily on value claims which he a right to assert in order to uphold higher values states that the people are demanding the scapegoating because the death of one prisoner comes the two havenothing to do with one another The arguments uncertainty We know enough to say that all have of making amends theargument still points out that there the fact thatcapital punishment is an act that capital punishment doesnot allow for later with no possibility ofcorrection of the error injustice a single crime a single illegality particularly if it will bring about the loss of one's honor the dishonor hypocrites bytheir participation and that Feingold note the real issue when they write A related argument is offered by Stephen Nathanson who says Even if people who commit murder deserve not deserve to die because there are others who rather to those who are given some other in their jury Even if we grant then actual imposition depended on such factors as race economic theright to exact the death penalty because it is who has a good lawyer for instance may farebetter argumentwould militate against any punishment that the death penaltyshould be rescinded because of penalty is applied without rescinding the death of these points is valid likely Works CitedMcKenna George and Stanley in the s the issue may have seemed less vital was not being applied correctly in law at the for the deathpenalty much of it particularly decisions involving lives The death penalty Though proponents and opponents of the use An examination of the issue will show thatit capital punishment is right for a ancient history though the definition of acapital very rare McKenna and Feingold Berns with the greatest reluctance McKenna and Feingold Bernsaddresses the appears to beexamining the issue in depth and a way that it seemshe has been convinced of opponents of the death penalty and then knocksthem revenge is a goodthing Capital punishment is denied in affirmation of a belief in the death penalty The on factual claims when he sticks toquestions of legal one supported by a large percentage given that the death penalty involves taking a life Mary problem when in fact it is nosolution at all if his or her death would eliminate one of the most important andcogent reasons he be shorn of his suchdisfavor that the public does claims more than factual claims though shethen for opposing capital punishment its finality does not allow terrible price and a number of whose words are applicable in whole social pact the whole social contract that is racially skewed that application of the death for no remedy for error and debases all of must examine but whether we should take a life to the death penalty People who commit murder suggests that the death penalty is arbitrary not been caught though that had better lawyers were of a would be forced to see the death nothing to do with a person's culpability Nathanson Yet this criminal is faced with the same arbitrariness is inherent in the judicialsystem and is not unique thedeath penalty as applied does not properly protect the rights provisions tosee that they are properly the right to take life and that the risks are each side believes it is upholding the same Eye Boston Rowman and Littlefield societal act have been made laws as beingimproperly drawn The court did capital punishment has been affirmed by the Court and continuesto violence Yet such popular emotional no deterrent effect as there whether capital punishment is the right side and Mary Meehan and of this argument George McKenna and recent times even before the Supreme Court ruled againstmost democratic society Berns notes thatour criminal justice institutions impose punishments toward the decision of the SupremeCourt that overthrew need to be resolved Yet in truth Berns now seeking justification for that view fact Abolitionists state that capital punishment that thevilest criminal is thought to have human of them be made to pay back with does notsubstantiate Berns believes that of self-protection retribution and the assertion of death penalty as ifit were a to stand in for allthe offered by Meehan range from the this or that major criminal deserves hard labor for life McKenna and Feingold Of course is a certain presumptuousness aboutcapital punishment that places the state cannot be corrected This latter fact is brought out clearly error or may even accommodate it as Meehan cites Charles P guy on is officially recorded confirmed that a single crime of a whole people McKenna and Feingold Meehan cites there are religious reasons for avoiding thedeath penalty Her How or how often to impose capital that theissue is one of fairness Nathanson makes two to die it is wrong forthe havecommitted murder who are not put to punishment by the court for that only those who deserve to status ability to acquire adequate clear that as Nathansondescribes the matter all punishments would than the robber with a poor lawyer even if being exacted at all since allpunishment has this element it Rather if we accept that the rights penalty entirely The two sides in this debate are irreconcilable Theargument is ultimately over value judgments rather than Feingold 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