Ethical Issues In Death Penalty

Morality is defined as principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior by the Oxford Dictionary. How do we decide if something is wrong or right? It is obvious morality differs from culture to culture, that being said which culture contains the right moral code? The death penalty is a topic that has debated over for decades, and currently legal in thirty-one out of fifty states in the United States. When the question of morality comes into play, the death penalty violates the scarcity of human life by ending a life it did not create. Murdering an individual as a punishment for murder, seems to defeat the purpose of teaching or convincing society that murder is immoral. If murder is prosecuted because murder is immoral, why does the state get to practice it? Majority of the population would agree on human life being valuable. It is arguably the …show more content…
The crime committed is so heinous that any sentence other than death is injustice. Arguments for the death penalty usually include the seeking of justice for the murder victim or his/her family. The idea of the murderer being able to lead a life in prisons after taking one seems out of question. Supporters of capital punishment seem to promote the “eye for eye” argument. A mother might question how can one murder her child, and just be sentenced to 50 years in prison. It doesn’t matter if the murder will be spending majority of his/her life locked up, because he/she will still get to enjoy being able to awake every morning, something the victim was robbed of. The mothers pain is completely understandable, the loss of a loved one is one of the worst experiences an individual can live through. But then again, will the mother have her child back after the murder is hanged or electrocuted? The feelings of loss and anger will likely still be felt, but now another family will be mourning the loss of a loved