Punishments

The utilitarian theory of punishment fully supports disregarding the origins in sentencing the rioters. The theory specifically focuses on the future with respect to how punishing benefits society. Punishment is justified if society benefits more than the harm caused by punishing the criminal. There are four goals in utilitarian theory. These are specific deterrence, general deterrence, reform and incapacitation. The Bradford Riots produced great social harm. For the sake of the community,…

we have been taught that murder is wrong. So ask yourself, what is capital punishment? Why do we kill people to show killing people is wrong? Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal sentence to die for criminal behaviour. We criticise murderers for breaking the law and tearing lives away from others, but we would be degraded to the very same level if we did the same and resorted to capital punishment. It carries a dangerous risk of punishing the innocent, is an…

Capital Punishment. In a world that is rapidly heading towards the future, this ancient, barbaric form of slaughter remains. It must be abolished in order to prevent the unwarranted murder of more innocents, at the hands of the governments whom still partake in this criminal act. When broken down into its simplest form, capital punishment is a person taking the life of another, better known as murder. Having been told the irrefutable truth since childhood that murder is wrong, wouldn’t one…

Some of the Christains believe that the capital punishment is not an acceptable and appropriate method to punish someone. This is because Christianity is based on forgiveness and compassion. Christianity always teach us to forgive other people and also compass others. This teaching supports the sentence of life imprisonment. Giving the murderer an imprisonment instead of death penalty is another way to forgive some one because it will give him or her a new chance to live their life in a better…

Capital punishment should be abolished because it is too expensive to retain, it is revenge not justice, and it 's possible for innocent people to be executed. The execution of human life should not be something we advocate here in the United States, it’s sad that as a nation we preach peace while still executing our citizens. The millions of dollars being wasted on executions could be spent improving our criminal justice system, and in doing so, improve our country. Not only is the death…

world? The penalty of sexual intercourse without consent rangers from 12 years to a life imprisonment, this is all depending on the jurisdiction and any aggravation factors (Australian Government, n.d.). By the 1870’s the abolishment of capital punishment had a much wider…

committed. This is illustrated in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The main character, Rodya Raskolnikov, commits murder and then falls apart because of his actions. Not only does he begin to have mental problems, but he falls physically ill as well. However, once Rodya tells a friend what he has done and he gives himself up to the police, he feels much better. Therefore, Dostoevsky wrote this novel to say that actual punishment is far less terrible than the torment one gives…

When you consider the punishment handed out by Odysseus to the unsuccessful wooers and the maids you have to consider the time in which they live. It was a hard time when death was common and there weren’t any courts of law . The victim was Odysseus and he was the judge as well. That may explain the harshness of the punishments. Nevertheless I believe the punishments (death) were unfair and did not fit the crimes. The only person who I believe deserved death, just like Eurymachus said, was the…

Implementation of punishment is one of the key issues that has been problematic throughout history. Recently, prison sentences is the most favorable type of punishment given to criminals worldwide. How much prison time depends on the severity of the crime that is committed. However, there has been new alternative punishments introduced by scholars that claim are more effective and fairer than imprisonment. Graeme Newman argues that corporal punishment should be given through electric shocks. I…

and in this way should be considered responsible. The American legitimate framework, reflecting popular sentiment, holds that capital punishment in essence is not a human rights infringement. The U.S. Preeminent Court has held that capital punishment is not savage and uncommon discipline (Gregg v. Georgia, 1976), even while narrowing the relevance of capital punishment in specific circumstances (Atkins v. Virginia, 2002; Roper v. Simmons, 2005). We call attention to out essentially to note that…