wift. The death penalty is anything but this. Of course it is severe, and if carried out it is swift. However the "certain" is where the actual death penalty fails in it's assertion to deter crime. The death is not certain by any means. Even if someone is sentenced to death, the appeals process could take years before it is actually carried out. The United States by far is not utilitarian in its approach to any crimes, much less murder. Taking this into consideration, it shows that in the history of corrections, philosophers dared to challenge the system to make a change. One must agree, mankind has progressed from mutilation, hangings, and floggings, while giving notion to human rights. Now the next step seems to be to take the actual death penalty from a philosophical prospective using theories from modern day theorists. The assumption of the modern day philosopher is that mankind may have advanced technically, but is by far spiritually ignorant. Since the 1980's man has moved out of the Lombroso ideology that conditions outside of him deem his behavior and BACK to the Classical School of Thought. Even though the name has changed to Choice Theory it is still the same ideology. Perhaps one must move back to move forward and apply a dialectical understanding. If Beccarea, Bentham, Voltaire, Diderot and the likes changed the system in their time before human rights were even established, there is a wave of sources on modern day philosophers and sociologist that assert that we are essentially a spirit inhabiting a body whereas in their time, people assumed they were bodies that had a spirit. This is a total shift in perception of what we are in the spectrum of the universe, but what we are not as well. Carl Jung, a noted psychologist is another major influential theorist back on the rise. He deemed that there is a collective consciousness where all minds are linked. That would mean what we do unto others inevitably we do unt...
