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The Death Penalty Debate
Reiman, in Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty, looks at punishment and specifically the death penalty from a retributivist point of view. Reiman argues that the death penalty is a just punishment for murder but other moral considerations necessitate its abolition. ... Van de Haag challenges the opponents of capital punishment to prove that either “no criminal act, however horrible, justifies the death penalty” or that even if capital punishment was found to deter murder more effectively that life imprisonment, we would still risk the lives of innocent victims to preserve the offender’s life (118). ... ese assertions cannot be proven and so takes an alternate course to look at the justice of capital punishment.
Reiman agrees that the death penalty is a just punishment for murder because the
retributive principle of lex talionis that capital punishment is based on is just. ... One way of examining this is from the “Hegelian” perspective that crime upsets the equality between persons and that retributive punishment restores equality.
Approximate Word count = 756
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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