Is Capital Punishment: Wrong Or Wrong?

With this world being covered in controversy its hard to step foot outside without finding something for two people to disagree on. One of those topics is Capital Punishment. “Many political philosophers today think of justice as fundamentally about fairness, while those who defend capital punishment typically hold that justice is fundamentally about desert (Aspenson).” While one side is for the use of capital punishment there are others who are greatly opposed to that penalty. “While thirty-two states in the United States still authorize capital punishment, this country finds itself in the midst of an undisputed trend towards states outlawing the death penalty (Mclaughlin).” In this discussion there are two views you can have and to really understand this you have to take a look at both sides of this debate. Capital Punishment is viewed with two different thoughts, those for it and those against it. There are those who feel that it is not right to take another person’s life for it makes the system responsible for the death no better than the …show more content…
One of the biggest oppositions for this claim is that when a man kills a murderer then man is playing God, and deciding to take another person’s life based on their mistake whether is be an intentional mistake or not. The question “Is Capital Punishment just?” is also raised in opposition to this claim that the punishment should be as sever as the act committed. “Death penalty supporters maintain that, by taking a life, murderers should sacrifice their own life as a form of retribution (White Paper On Ethical Issues Concerning Capital Punishment.).” The man or woman who commits a crime worth death most find it suitable to give them that punishment. “Garland defines [Capital Punishment] as a practice whereby a properly constituted authority puts to death a convicted offender in punishment for a crime