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Capital Punishment in American Society Mark A. Tripp The use of capital punishment in our culture has been a source of varying amounts of debate and disagreement throughout our history. The killing of human beings is among the most serious of human actions, and properly stimulates a process of rationalization which is commensurate with its consequences. The decision for methodically choosing to end the lives of individuals in response to actions found to be unacceptable to society is unique in its finality and in its severity. Like the other forms of socially-sanctioned killing, war and police actions, capital punishment usually ensues from a process of political enforcement of social aims. Unlike war, it rationally targets specific individuals whose actions and attributes are deemed socially unacceptable and who are selected for death by a system which functions to serve the need of the citizenry to express its strongest disapproval. The use of capital...

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