VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS TEISS FAKULTETAS

Dienins studij formos I kurso teiss student Gabijos Grigalauskaits , Karolio Klimo, Vytauto Chochos darbas

Vadov:

Vilnius, 2009

Introduction Is capital punishment ethically acceptable? Arguments for capital punishment Arguments against capital punishment Methods of capital punishment Alternatives

 The

phrase 'capital punishment' comes from the Latin word for the head. Capital punishment is used in many countries around the world.

 Death

penalty can be justified trough the utilitarism model. Ethics are subjective.

 Retribution Deterrence

or justice

Rehabilitation Prevention

of re-offending Incentive for helping the police A Japanese argument

 All

guilty people deserve to be punished in proportion to the severity of their crime. of appropriate punishment is the manner in which the courts respond to the society.

Imposition

 Criminals

repent and expierence spiritual rehabiliation. Aquinas: ,, by accepting the death penalty the offender was able to escape punishment in the

Thomas

 Those

who are executed can not commit further crimes. Criminals imprisoned for life can escape and kill again. A threat to prison staff and other offenders remains.

 Japan

executes approximately 3 prisoners per year. Executions reduce stress in the workplace. Good and bad things theory.

Value of human life and the right to live Execution of the innocent Retribution is wrong It brutualises society It is too expensive Cruel, inhumane and degrading

The value of offenders life can not be destroyed even if they have killed someone. Everyone has the human right to live even those commit murder.

Innoncent people will be killed. Witnesses, prosecutors and jurors can all make mistakes. Where capital punishment is used such mistakes can not be put right.

We can not teach that killing is wrong by killing. Priciples of retribution are violated. Life imprisonment is more painfull.

Animals (tearing apart by horses, trampling by horses, devouring, stings, crushing by elephant, etc.); Boiling to death; Breaking back; Breaking wheel; Buried alive; Burning; Cooking;

Crucifixion; Crushing; Decapitation (beheading); Disembowelment; Dismemberment; Drawing and quartering; Drowning; Electrocution; Explosives; Falling; Flaying; Garrote;

Gassing; Guillotine; Hanging; Immurement; Impalement; Lethal injection; Pendulum; Poisoning; Sawing; Scaphism; Shooting; Slow slicing;

Stabbing; Starvation/dehydration; Stoning; Strangulation, etc.!

Alternatives

Life imprisonment Exile the criminals Use criminals as donors Work in dangerous places

Life Imprisonment

Exile the criminals

Work in dangerous places