Discuss the arguments for and against the death penalty. Be sure to present the arguments along the three key themes, on which many arguments depend.

Capital punishment has been on heated argument regarding its effects on the criminal behavior and ethics.

Moral arguments

To start with the arguments for death penalty, those who support death penalty consider that those who killed, since they have taken the life of other, have sacrificed their own life and thus death penalty is guarantee for them, mustering moral anger is for the victim's relatives and the law-abiding individuals(Kyambalesa, 2019). On the other side for those arguing against death punishment, they believe that the law is towards limiting death punishment, because when it is used for weak crimes it could be immoral and and unequal to amount of harm done. Also, the death op-posers claim that it is against someone's right to life and also its inhuman and demeaning(Brecthel, 2019). Thus they believe that death penalty is cruel and not necessary at all.

Utilitarian arguments

Those arguing for death punishment acknowledge that this form this form of punishment have exclusively strong preventive influence on the crime offenders for whom imprisonment is insufficient to contain them(Kyambalesa, 2019). However, those arguing against death penalty say that death penalty is not most efficient preventive than different sanction such as imprisoning the criminal for a long period.

Practical arguments

Death penalty supporters argue that it is possible to enact and formulate laws that defines who deserves death or not. However, those who argue against death punishment believes that death punishment is a tool for singling out certain kind of offences since deserving death is foreseeable random and thus prejudiced and unfair(Brecthel, 2019). Therefore, according to death penalty op-posers, capital punishment should be abolished.