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... Mill and Immanuel Kant argue for the moral permissibility of capital punishment. Though both agree with the death penalty, Mills argues for capital punishment to prevent murder, while Kant argues that a criminal deserves a punishment fitting to the gravity of his or her crime. Like Mills and Kant I agree imprisonment constitutes one evil, the loss of freedom, but the death penalty imposes a more sever loss, that of life itself. I, like Kant, believe retribution is the rationally supported theory that the criminal deserves a punishment fitting to the enormity of his crime.
Like Kant, a retributivist holds three positions: #“that all the guilty deserve to be punished, only the guilty deserve to be punished, and the guilty deserve to be punished in proportion to the severity of their crime. ... Such as, if a father knows his eight year old daughter was brutally raped then murdered he is not going to want the man responsible to sit on death row for ten years and then suffer a measly pin prick with a needle leading to a quite death. The father is going to want the man to suffer agonizing pain and a long, tumultuous death.
Approximate Word count = 965
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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