Ethical Issues of Capital Punishment

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Ethical Issues of Capital Punishment

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Ethical Issues of Capital Punishment

It is essential to handle lawbreakers in a punitive manner and studies have indicated that imprisonment , remand , and detention have not been very significant in achieving its objective of reducing the rate of crime in different parts of the globe . On contrary , crime rate has increased with increase in the number of offenders confronting remand custody , or detention in the United States . In the result , experts

consider capital punishment as the perfect method of preventing criminal activities in the country that has resulted in a number of ethical and moral criticisms since centuries

In this regard , major debates related to ethical issues of capital punishment have argued over the right of government to take a human life and the circumstances that may allow a group of people in terms of jury to decide whether capital punishment should be given or not . According to records of the year 2003 , more than sixty countries have capital punishment in their justice system for extreme crimes , such as murder fraud , rape , etc . In the year 2005 , more than fifty criminals were executed in the USA , and thus , a number of organizations have argued ethically and morally . In brief , various agencies are now endeavoring to abolish capital punishment . Some of the ethical reasons behind such endeavors are possibility of execution of innocent people , God has the only power of birth or death...