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Capital Punishment

Punishment by execution of someone officially judged to have committed a serious or capital crime. Capital Punishment. Capital Punishment. Punishment: The deliberate and authorized causing of pain or harm to someone thought to have broken the law. Punishment.

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Capital Punishment

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  1. Punishment by execution of someone officially judged to have committed a serious or capital crime Capital Punishment

  2. Capital Punishment • Punishment: The deliberate and authorized causing of pain or harm to someone thought to have broken the law.

  3. Punishment • Pain, harm or other consequence normally considered unpleasant • Administered for an offense against a law or rule • Punishment must be administered by someone who is judge guilty of an offense. • Punishment must be imposed by someone other than the offender • Punishment must be imposed by rightful authority

  4. Capital Punishment • Two ways to look at punishment. • In terms of people what people deserve • In terms of desirable consequences

  5. Capital Punishment • Four Justifications for Punishment. • Retribution • Deterrence • Incapacitation • Rehabilitation

  6. Capital Punishment • Retribution: The view that offenders deserve to be punished for their crimes and to be punished in proportion to the severity of their offense.

  7. Capital Punishment • Deterrence: Inhibiting criminal behavior by fear of punishment • General deterrence Focuses on general prevention of crime by making examples of specific offenders. • Specific deterrence Focuses on the individual in question. The aim of these punishments is to discourage the criminal from future criminal acts by instilling an understanding of the consequences.

  8. Capital Punishment • Incapacitation • Aims to prevent future crimes by taking away the individual’s ability to commit such acts.

  9. Capital Punishment • Rehabilitation: • Aims to reform the offender or rehabilitate them so they can reintegrate into society.

  10. Capital Punishment • Abolitionists: Those who wish to abolish capital punishment

  11. Retentionists: Those who wish to retain the death penalty Capital Punishment

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