ethics in criminal justice

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Death Penalty

Death Penalty is not an ethical method of dealing with criminals considering the issues of racism , excessive cost that come with this practice . Death penalty is irrevocable incases of wrongful convictions . In democratic states people with low income or come from ethnic minorities are far more likely to be executed than people from richer background and ethnic majority who commit the same crimes

Deontology claims that the significant different impact of the death penalty are valid , hence people are morally

bound to accept capital punishment as a government crime-fighting tool . A deontological critique fails when it comes to the moral question of capital punishment

It is wrong to kill . Deontological objection to capital punishment are built upon a belief that killing a murderer as a form of punishment violates the persons right to life and corrodes the value placed on life (Kneller Axim , 1998 . The single life of a murderer that is taken through execution cannot be equated with the lives of future murder victims because the government purposely kills when it executes

The deontology objection to the death penalty asserts that the death penalty is wrong by its nature , mostly due to the fact that it amounts to the violation of the right to life which should be universal . It is also wrong on the ground that the process is cruel and inhumane . It brutalizes the society and desensitizes and dehumanizes participants of the judicial process . It extinguishes the possibility of rehabilitation and redemption of the perpetration . Deontic justification to the death penalty on the other hand argues that death penalty is right by nature mostly on the ground that retribution against the violator of another life or liberty is just . It naturally follows that not applying death penalty to heinous murder would be unjust

In the context of deontology , life imprisonment cannot be a substitute to death penalty . This is because life imprisonment or any length is a direct violation of right to liberty . In deontological term one cannot substitute the violation of one type of right (right to life ) with another (right to liberty . Deontological argument against death penalty in principle is argument against retribution and punishment They point out that if there is indeed no penalty for murder on another heinous crime then there is no effective barrier against initial crime barring one of a psychological nature . Hence the victim and his family and friends are free to take law into their own hands and face no consequence because the justice system no longer functions as deterrent Those who argue for death penalty on deontological (retribution ) ground argue that rehabilitation is justified only when the victim survives In case of murder , they point out that possible rehabilitation of one life cannot redeem another life taken . In cases of planned multiple homicide committed by an adult who shows no sign of remorse at the time of crime the death penalty is the only cause of action

Consequentialism argument against capital...