Capital punishments- Ethics Flashcards
what is a quote from Barack Obama about Capital Punishment?
“I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes.”
How does capital punishment break “worship God”?
Exodus 10 commandments – do not kill
“The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away” – sovereignty of life belongs to God
Leviticus 24:17
“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death”
Romans 12:19
“Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
1 John 3:12
We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous
Revelation 21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
how does capital punishment disorder society?
Legalised killing could disrupt the bedrock principles of society like to protect and to not harm.
How does capital punishment not disorder society?
Capital punishment could be seen as protection and deterrence.
what is response to the idea that capital punishment deters crimes?
murder is rarely planned. it may happen in the heat of the moment.
does it advance knowledge?
maybe? I could advance our knowledge of ingenious ways to kill people?
What about preservation of life?
obvs not preserving life.
who adapted NML into proportionalism?
Bernard Hoose and Richard McCormick.
What did Peter Vardy and Paul Grosch say about proportionalism?
“There are certain moral rules and it can never be right to go against these unless there is a proportionate reason which could justify it.”
what does Proportionalism say about capital punishment?
Although the classic version of NML would reject capital punishment because the precepts are broken the proportionalist approach may justify capital punishment as the greater good is served.
If capital punishment generally deters the act of murder happening then you are better serving the precept of preservation of life.
What is a case study of Angel Diaz?
On August 15, 1990, Angel Diaz, age nineteen, was sentenced in the Bronx for the murder of an Israeli immigrant who had employed one of Diaz’s friends. After strangling the man with a shoelace and stabbing him, Diaz and four friends donned Halloween masks to rob, beat and gang rape the man’s wife and sixteen year old daughter. The women were then sexually tortured while the murdered man’s three year old daughter watched from her crib.
Angel Diaz already had been convicted of burglary four times before he was sixteen years old. Diaz’s lawyer, Paul Auerbach, said that Diaz was an honest boy forced by poverty to do bad things
