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'The only justification for the use of capital punishment is that it permanently incapacitates offenders' Discuss.
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3. 'the only justification for the use of capital punishment is that it permanently incapacitates offenders' Discuss Defining 'incapacitation' in terms of the criminal justice system, relates to the sentencing or punishment strategies that make it impossible to re-offend by imposing certain physical restraints. Many argue that the above definition is the only justification for capital punishment, but it can also be reasoned following the notions of; deterrence, retribution, denunciation and to some extent reductivism. But as with every discussion these notions are qualified on both sides. If one takes the view of the retributivist, punishment should be seen as an end in itself, wrongdoers should be punished since they deserve it. This is a backward looking theory in that it seeks to justify punishment by deriving the fact that the offender committed an offence and should therefore be punished, not at the future consequences of the punishment. According to Retributivism it...
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