Capital punishment is necessary to regulate violence, without capital punishment the civilians live will be unsecure and increase fear of violence in our society. Crime can occur anywhere; individuals that commit crimes become a fragment of our everyday lives; sometime we need to address the issue of crime, and questions that need to be answered of how to reduce crime from further happening and what appropriate punishment should be considered. Some individuals that commit a crime because they have no other option to survive, but some individuals do it for the pleasure of it or for personal gain. If a desperate mother stole bread and butter from the supermarket definitely do not deserve the death penalty. However, a terrorist or a serial killer …show more content…
Furthermore, Kant opposed the use of rehabilitation, his judgment is that there is no place for individual that commit crime in society. In essence, the Just Dessert model originates from the theory of Immanuel Kant, as Just Desserts is certainly retributivism in general, set restrictions on the range and the variety of punishment and individual can accept. Chan (2001), argues that these boundries are inattentive in the belief of rehabiliation, where individuals can obtain an unstipulated prison sentence and could be released when the state thinks the individual are rehabilitated from their past crime. Incapacition is a theory that supports extremly long prison sentence on offence in order to prevent fruther crime being commited by offenders. For example: Clayton Weatherson ; a formal Otago University lecturer was sentence to 18 years in prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend Sophie Elliot 18times in the chest, the prosecutor believe the crime was controlled and a deliberate act (NZ Herald, 2009). By saying so, if the criminals surrender their moralities when they takes another individual life, and the state impose them a compassionate punishment it show that we devalue the right to live in a free society (Winter, 1998). …show more content…
As Beccaria decribes the law should be made by the state and made to enable the rights and the actions of others, and promote the goodness of the numbers (Newman 2009,p43). If capital punishment as applied is charastically unjust and shortens the deterrent value, as a society we need to adjust the partial retribution that outweight the implication of perseving the death penalty. That capital punishment brings to the immersable suffering of families that have lost a precious family member to the act of crime and voilence from the criminals. Vu (2010) says that the lawbreakers needs the self controlled to managed their behavior and their emotions in serving their time in