Where does our class stand? Anonymous survey
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Capital Punishment Where does our class stand? Anonymous survey |
Capital Punishment & Punishment in general
| Agree | Disagree | Not Sure | |
| Capital Punishment is necessary | |||
| Capital Punishment is fair | |||
| Capital Punishment is relatively painless | |||
| Capital Punishment is humane | |||
| The primary purpose of punishment is to give injury to the guilty party | |||
| The primary purpose of punishment is to deter others from doing evil | |||
| The primary purpose of punishment is to somehow rehabilitate the criminal while he is being punished | |||
| The primary purpose of punishment is to restore the scales of justice | |||
| The primary moral consideration in capital punishment is that it is wrong to take someone's life | |||
| If I were an elected official and had to vote on capital punishment, I would vote to keep capital punishment |
| PRO "Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life." -- Alex Kozinski, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| CON
"If you kill
such a one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me."
Socrates "One searches our chronicles in vain for the execution of any member of the affluent strata of this society." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas |