Utilitarianism Death Penalty

All lives matter. It is not up to us to make decision whether one’s life has to live or die, but I believe that justice should be served and if a person murders an innocent person, he/she should pay the price at the cost of his/her own life. According to Utilitarianism, most people would agree because it would only promote overall goodness. It would lessen the violence and the killings of innocent people if the criminal is put down instead of just being locked in a jail cell. According to Utilitarianism, whichever provides the overall goodness and the right thing to all or almost all of the people is the right thing to do whether it is for our own good or for the good of others. Most people would agree that every person deserves a specific punishment for every crime a person is guilty of doing. If justice was real, a person has to pay the price of what he/she owes and the punishment should equally weigh to that person’s crime. Therefore, if …show more content…
Some murderers get away with their crimes because prosecutors give them light charges. It is unjust because it isn’t fair that they take an innocent life and they get away with it. Some of those murderers will kill again because putting them in prison for a very long time doesn’t really change the fact that they’re still murderers. Some murderers kill people because it gives them pleasure and they will keep doing it and nothing will stop them until we try to. I believe that the only solution to that problem is capital punishment because that is the only way they can repay what they have done and it is the only way the justice can be served. Most people would agree about my opinion because it matters most to all of us is our safety and freedom. Nobody would want to suffer great pain from a loss. The less criminal we have to deal with, the less we have to worry about and the happier we will ever