Capital Punishment: Should it be brought back?

ISLAM

AGAINST

FOR

  • They believe that only Allah has the right to take life, and therefore carrying out the death penalty is 'playing God' and committing the sin of shirk.
  • Shari'ah law states that the family of a murder victim can accept money as reparation rather than enforce the death penalty.
  • "If anyone kills a person, it is as if he kills all mankind"
  • Crimes according to the Sharia laws which could result in capital punishment include murder, rape, adultery, etc.
  • We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds is legal retribution.
  • "...Take not life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law. Thus does He command you, so that you may learn wisdom"

CHRISTIANITY

FOR

AGAINST

  • The Church of England has not repealed the statement in Article 37 of its Thirty Nine Articles which says: The Laws of the Realm may punish Christian men with death for heinous and grievous offences
  • Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed Genesis 9:6
  • Exodus 21:23-25 establishes that punishment must be proportional to the offense. The extreme sanction of death should be considered only in the most serious offenses
  • Matthew 5:38-39 when he said: You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek
  • "Thou shalt not kill" (Exodus 21:13)
  • "How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!"

ETHICS

The rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group or culture.

Deterrence

Retribution

Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act

the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences

Innocence's Project

Restorative Justice

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Another method instead of Capital punishment which would heal instead of harm an individual

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PRISON SYSTEM IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

United States

Sweden (and other Nordic countries)

United Kingdom

American's punitive prison system which is overcrowded and has many mentally-ill prisoners locked up.

Protection of the public – prison protects the public from the most dangerous and violent individuals. Second, punishment – prison deprives offenders of their liberty and certain freedoms enjoyed by the rest of society and acts as a deterrent.

Swedish prisons focus on the rehabilitation of prisoners, to limit re-offenders. Sweden has the smallest number of re-offenders in all of Europe, just 16%