Capital Punishment: the Peculiar Institution

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Social Issues

 

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April 4, 2015

 

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When a criminal breaks a law, he or she breaks the bonds of the society. Without these bonds, society is not possible. Therefore, the criminal must do something, undertake some act to restore the bonds of society in reparation for his or her crime . Punishment is then reparation for an unjust act. Punishment cannot be justified as a deterrent to further crime, because the person being punished becomes a mere means to an end...
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Punishment is then reparation for an unjust act. Punishment cannot be justified as a deterrent to further crime, because the person being punished becomes a mere means to an end. By using someone as an example to deter crime, that person as a means loses his or her human dignity and worth. It is that dignity and worth that makes each of us human beings ...
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