From: Adil Mansimov
To: Doctor Sylvia Schoemaker.

November 13

Capital Punishment Agree with this case or disagree with this?
Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a moral community. This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. This leads to a rejection of capital punishment.
A central principle of a just society is that every person has an equal right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The essential basis on which community is built requires each citizen to honor the rightful claims of others. The preciousness of life in a moral community must be so highly honored that those who do not honor the life of others make null and void their own right to membership. Those who violate the personhood of others, especially if this is done persistently as a habit must pay the ultimate penalty. We can debate whether some non-lethal alternative is a fitting substitute for the death penalty. But the standard of judgment is whether the punishment fits the crime and sufficiently honors the nature of moral community. This topic is so convictable that we could discuss it all our life but didn’t came to similar meaning about that, in all times this topic was the position of discussion from my side as I told it this paragraph I disagree with this type of punishment but one think I would like to notice that killing must be punished by the way it was made.
Against Capital Punishment
What would a community based on this kind of love do with those who committed brutal acts of terror, violence, and murder? Put negatively, it would not live by the philosophy of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life." It would act to safeguard the members of the community from further destruction. Those who had shown no respect for life would be restrained, permanently if necessary, so that they could not further endanger other members of the community. But the purpose of confinement would not be vengeance or punishment. Rather an ideal community would show mercy even to those who had shown no mercy. It would return good for evil. The aim of isolation is reconciliation and not revenge.
Capital punishment is needed because:
1. It greatly discourages violent crimes like murder and rape.
2. It eases the burden on taxpayers by not having to support criminals who are sentenced to life in prison.
3. The only way for justice to be served is to have the criminal pay with their life, "an eye for an eye." Many people believe that capital punishment does not belong in a civilized society. I believe it is needed because we do not live in a civilized society, if we did there would be no crime.
Today there is a big controversy over capital punishment whether or not it works or if it is morally right. In America, capital punishment is only used in felony Cass such as murder or a felony burglary, where there was an unintended murder because of a robbery. People who favor the death penalty say that the criminals deserve it and that it is the only way for justice to be served. People who are against the death penalty, say that it is immoral, that no person should be sentenced to death, it has no place in a civilized society, and that since the death penalty cannot be racially bias it should be banished.
There are several thinks that goes against the capital punishment:
1. The possibility of error. Sometimes a person might be put to death that is innocent.
2. Unfair administration. Capital punishment is inflicted disproportionately on the poor and minorities.
3. Weakness of the argument from deterrence. The claim that the threat of capital punishment reduces violent crime is inconclusive, certainly not proven, extremely difficult to disprove, and morally suspect if any case.
4. The length of stay on death row. If there were ever any validity to the deterrence argument, it is negated by the endless appeals, delays, technicalities, and retrials that keep persons condemned to death waiting for execution for years on end. One of the strongest arguments right now against capital punishment is that we are too incompetent to carry it out. That incompetence becomes another injustice.
5. Mitigating circumstances. Persons who commit vicious crimes have often suffered from neglect, emotional trauma, violence, cruelty, abandonment, lack of love, and a host of destructive social conditions. These extenuating circumstances may have damaged their humanity to the point that it is unfair to hold them fully accountable for their wrongdoing. Corporate responsibility somehow has to be factored in to some degree. No greater challenge to social wisdom exists than this.
In conclusion
Such, in brief, is the argument for and against capital punishment, one founded on justice and the nature of moral community, the other resting on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. If we stand back from this description and make an attempt at evaluation, one point is crucial. The love ethic requires a high degree of moral achievement and maturity. It is more suitable for small, closely-knit communities in which members know each other personally and in some depth. Forgiveness and reclamation flourish best in a setting in which people can participate in each other's lives.

I think that this point of view is neutral I think every think must be judged by God, Capital punishment is the topic of discussion in the such Huge organizations as UN, OPEC, World Trade Organization, European Council, Big 8. Even they couldn’t decide what to do me just could step out and give our honest opinion.

Sincerely
Adil Mansimov
God Bless You.