Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment Punishment by Punishment by

execution of execution of someone someone officially officially judged to have judged to have committed a committed a serious or serious or capital crimecapital crime

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment Punishment: Punishment:

The deliberate The deliberate and authorized and authorized causing of pain causing of pain or harm to or harm to someone someone thought to have thought to have broken the law.broken the law.

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment Pain, harm or other

consequence normally considered unpleasant

Administered for an offense against a law or rule

Punishment must be administered by someone who is judge guilty of an offense.

Punishment must be imposed by someone other than the offender

Punishment must be imposed by rightful authority

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment Two ways to look

at punishment. In terms of people

what people deserve

In terms of desirable consequences

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment Four Four

Justifications for Justifications for Punishment.Punishment.

RetributionRetribution DeterrenceDeterrence IncapacitationIncapacitation RehabilitationRehabilitation

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment Retribution: Retribution:

The view that The view that offenders deserve offenders deserve to be punished for to be punished for their crimes and to their crimes and to be punished in be punished in proportion to the proportion to the severity of their severity of their offense.offense.

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment Deterrence:Deterrence: Inhibiting criminal Inhibiting criminal

behavior by fear of behavior by fear of punishment punishment

General General deterrencedeterrence Focuses on general Focuses on general prevention of crime prevention of crime by making examples by making examples of specific offenders. of specific offenders.

Specific deterrenceSpecific deterrence Focuses on the Focuses on the individual in question. individual in question. The aim of these The aim of these punishments is to punishments is to discourage the discourage the criminal from future criminal from future criminal acts by criminal acts by instilling an instilling an understanding of the understanding of the consequences.consequences.

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment IncapacitationIncapacitation Aims to Aims to

prevent future prevent future crimes by crimes by taking away taking away the individual’s the individual’s ability to ability to commit such commit such acts. acts.

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment Rehabilitation:Rehabilitation: Aims to reform Aims to reform

the offender or the offender or rehabilitate rehabilitate them so they them so they can reintegrate can reintegrate into society. into society.

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment AbolitionistsAbolitionists

: Those : Those who wish to who wish to abolish abolish capital capital punishmentpunishment

Capital PunishmentCapital Punishment RetentionistRetentionist

s: Those s: Those who wish to who wish to retain the retain the death death penaltypenalty