Capital Punishment And Its Effects On Society - 1794 Words

With all wrongdoing there must be a penalty for the consequences which forms the basis of the term of ‘punishment’.28 Human societies have been heavily characterized for having the view that wrongdoers should suffer a more or less immediate punishment for their bad deeds, therefore the more serious the offense, the more extreme the punishment.28 Capital Punishment is the process through which a person is put to death that is legally authorized by the state in retribution for a crime.28 The use of capital punishment is only permitted to a state; therefore non-state organizations cannot execute a person as this will be murder, as they do not have legal power to take such a drastic action.19 Capital punishment is only authorized for capital†¦show more content†¦However, some may also argue against capital punishment on the basis of financial burden, execution of innocents, its violation of basic human rights and its failure to deter crime. The term retribution is most simply defined as a vengeance for a wrong act through inflicting punishment on someone.52 To establish real justice there is a requirement that guilty people deserve to be punished, by suffering in proportion to the severity of their crime.33 This has formed the basis of beliefs for countries (e.g. America, China) that continue to utilize capital punishment in their legal system. As Justice AS Ahand and NP Singh of the Supreme Court of India put it â€Å"the measure of punishment in a given case must depend upon the atrocity of the crime, the conduct of the criminal and the defenseless and unprotected state of the victim†.64 This argument fits with the intrinsic sense of justice.33 ‘Why shouldn’t criminals suffer in connection to the impact of their crime?’ Pojman claims that