The Criminal Justice system is only one aspect of a major entity referred to as social institution. Social institutions were created to protect and teach acceptable behaviors to society members to ensure unified treatment of everyone in a specified group. The Criminal Justice system was designed as a means to discipline and correct offenders, offer compensation to victims of criminal acts, and deter future criminal occurrences. Even with all the focus of this system geared at rehabilitation there are still a numbers of offenders that both the criminal justice system and social institution have failed to reach. For some of these criminals, they will meet their fate with a sanction that been used since society 's infancy and is surrounded with controversy: Capital Punishment.
A brief history of Capital Punishment Examples of capital punishment can be cited from historical accounts of public beheadings, maimings, crucifying and hangings (Time trip, 2001). These public events were an inexpensive approach to dispensing justice and deterring future incidents in effort to control the population. During the …show more content…
History has documented a number of examples of this form of punishment being used to help deter crime and to protect society members as well as their beliefs. As society changes their opinion, focusing more on restorative programs rather than vengeance, it is contributing to the idea that capital punishment is obsolete. However, many states have disbanded the use of the death penalty not because they believed that it was inhumane, but because of the cost. Many states are faced with budget shortfalls and can not continue supporting the death penalty and pay for their annual state operations. Even though there are a number of moral debates surrounding this issue, the true deciding factor may not be based in ethics but rather in the costs associated with the
A brief history of Capital Punishment Examples of capital punishment can be cited from historical accounts of public beheadings, maimings, crucifying and hangings (Time trip, 2001). These public events were an inexpensive approach to dispensing justice and deterring future incidents in effort to control the population. During the …show more content…
History has documented a number of examples of this form of punishment being used to help deter crime and to protect society members as well as their beliefs. As society changes their opinion, focusing more on restorative programs rather than vengeance, it is contributing to the idea that capital punishment is obsolete. However, many states have disbanded the use of the death penalty not because they believed that it was inhumane, but because of the cost. Many states are faced with budget shortfalls and can not continue supporting the death penalty and pay for their annual state operations. Even though there are a number of moral debates surrounding this issue, the true deciding factor may not be based in ethics but rather in the costs associated with the