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Moral Justification of the Death Penalty

iminals should be punished accordingly to their crimes, as reinstated "an eye for eye." Also, with the fact that a death of criminal is a less efficient manner used, than to strip a man by his liberty. As so Bender states:As it is by that we learn to speak, to walk, and to satisfy our necessities, so the ideas of morality are stamped on our minds by repeated impressions. The death of a criminal is a terrible but momentary spectacle, and therefore a less efficacious method of deterring others, than the continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned, as a beast of burthen, to repair, by his labour, the injury he has done to society. (23)When a person is evident in taking another life, one should precede in knowing the consequences it holds. The primary role the government must abide is to maintain law and order. If so a person threatens or hurts the society in any way, the culprit has proved to be capable of committing more extreme crimes. Therefore, it is justifiable to penalize such person for the crime done in return with death. The criminal should be punished accordingly to their crime. Only in concern with the moral it teaches society. There is a natural inclination in man to return injury for injury, evil for evil (Bender and Leone 36.) In belief the penalty for murder should be death as it is itself. Whereas, society chooses to take the life of a murderer, in exchange society does not want to lose its own. Rather than be sympathetical to the culprits for their wrong doing, they deserve the penalty it follows for that specified crime. The act of murder is the climax and in return be the same penalty of the crime that had been done. Here Bender precedes his thoughts: " I believe that man is entitled to free will and that except in rare instances he is both morally and legally responsible for all his acts… I believe that society is justified in destroying the irresponsible murderer if he is known to imperil...

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