Death Penalty

Since I have already discussed about Death Penalty's crime deterrence, it is time to focus on its capability to retribute and rectitude. I will also disprove its being unconstitutional and other things.RetributionAccording to Budziszewski, "Deserved punishment protects society morally by restoring this just order, making the wrongdoer pay a price equivalent to the harm he has done.” [1] When a person performs a crime, it unsettles the society's order. Therefore, death penalty simply rebuilds order to society and modestly punishes the criminal for his crime. Retribution also gives justice for the victims and their families, revenge per se, but without malice. For this reason, it proves the simple definition of retribution.RectitudeFor the abolitionists, they say that the government has no right to take the life of a person. However, according to Immanuel Kant (among other philosophers), "a society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken taken somebody else's life is simply immoral." This has rebutted all other claims about having this as immoral. The criminal isn't killed inhumanely as all of the states that has this use lethal injection because the U.S. Constitution's 8th amendment states that they shouldn't practice cruel and unusual punishment. No one is calling this unconstitutional. “…No system of justice can produce results which are 100% certain all the time. Mistakes will be made in any system which relies upon human testimony for proof. We should be vigilant to uncover and avoid such mistakes. Our system of justice rightfully demands a higher standard for death penalty cases. However, the risk of making a mistake with the extraordinary due process applied in death penalty cases is very small, and there is no credible evidence to show that any innocent persons have been executed at least since the death penalty was reactivated in 1976…The inevitability of a mistake should not serve as grounds to eliminate the death penalty any more than the risk of having a fatal wreck should make automobiles illegal…” Steven D. Stewart, Prosecuting Attorney.And, the criminal's race or economic class is not relevant. If you're guilty, you should receive the right punishment. It is said that poverty creates criminals and there is more chance that they will receive this. However, Ernest van de Haag says:“Punishments are imposed on persons, not on…economic groups. Guilt is personal. The only relevant question is: does the person to be executed deserve the punishment? Whether or not others deserved the same punishment, whatever the economic or racial group, have avoided execution is irrelevant.” [2]In 2002, there were approximately 1,526 people killed in 31 countries, and 3,248 people that were receiving this in 67 countries. Plus the 81% of executions in China, Iran, and the USA. [3] That data is just for 2002 and as the population grows, the figure also grows. Therefore, it is helpful to lower down the number of inmates on death row. "Many opponents present, as fact, that the cost of the death penalty is so expensive (at least $2 million per case?), that we must choose life without parole ('LWOP') at a cost of $1 million for 50 years. Predictably, these pronouncements may be entirely false. JFA estimates that LWOP cases will cost $1.2 million - $3.6 million more than equivalent death penalty cases. There is no question that the up front costs of the death penalty are significantly higher than for equivalent LWOP cases. There also appears to be no question that, over time, equivalent LWOP cases are much more expensive... than death penalty cases. Opponents ludicrously claim that the death penalty costs, over time, 3-10 times more than LWOP." - Dudley Sharp [4](1) http://www.orthodoxytoday.org...(2) http://www.pbs.org...(3) http://www.cbsnews.com...(4) http://www.prodeathpenalty.com... (Sec. D)