Ethical Issues Of The Death Penalty Research Paper

The Ethical issue I chose is the Death Penalty. Majority of the people I talked to in person were for the penalty. They had valid reasoning for their decisions mainly on what did the person do or what occurred to get the person in question into that situation. The first reasoning would be the simple case of the person murdering someone else or multiple people. In that case the death penalty would be just seeing as if they’ve committed it once before they have more motivation to do it again. Reasoning for the death penalty is doing to you what you have done to others. Mainly because to have them experience what they have done to the other unfortunate person. Going on to other situations pertaining to people that haven’t committed murder could still have multiple reasoning for being sentenced to the death penalty.

The person could’ve been in various situations where they have put more than just themselves into harm’s way (car chase, bank robbery, etc.). Probably one of the biggest reasoning I found talking to others is the concerns for keeping these people who have done horrible crimes or continue to do horrible/bad things living. Feeding them, making sure they have a place to stay and so on. Why pay for a lost cause. It makes no sense. When you look at it from a cost standpoint the choice is obvious….The Death Penalty. It’s a lot more cost effective to get rid of someone then to keep them alive or to chase them down when they’re released and commit a crime again. Why waste the man/woman power and money that will get us nowhere. When I Went online this was the only time I was given reasoning for going against the death penalty. Main reason for not choosing the penalty is do they deserve to die or does the government have the right to take the life away from someone. The basis behind that is it humane. People say its unjust administration of punishment or immoral. In some ways though if they committed a murder then was it moral for the person