capital punishment

Question 1

capital punishment

Answer 1

• sentence ordering that someone is punished with the death penalty is called a death sentence & the act of carrying it out is execution

Question 2

capital punishment in uk

Answer 2

• illegal in uk
• abolished for all murder in 1965 & all crimes in 1998
• in 2004 uk agreed not to restore the death penalty for as long as its part of europe convention

Question 3

capital punishment in usa

Answer 3

• legal in 27 states
• only developed western nation that applies it regularly
• one of 55 countries applying it & first to develop lethal injection
• as of jan 1 2020 2620 on death row

Question 4

nml

Answer 4

• executioner doesn’t become murder as state authorises them to kill
• breaches ordered society as killing someone for punishment isn’t keeping society ordered
• could breach protect innocent as sometimes the innocent are convicted and actual criminal found after innocent has died

Question 5

situation ethics

Answer 5

• no set view
• some believe it brutalises society so would disagree on it
• those believing in retribution may demand capital punishment
• fletcher’s point is there’s no rules compelling you to respond one way or another so you decide in light of own views of what love demands
• use 4 working principles