Jeremy Bentham: Dead Penalty

Jeremy Bentham: Dead Penalty

Does the state have the right to kill another person?
The death penalty is unmoral and unjust. Capital punishment will bring no healing or justice therefore I strongly think that it is not right to kill another person as a punishment and capital punishment should be abolished. I lived in an age where death penalty was imposed no matter the degree of offense. I’ve always been against this unfair treatment. Since my ideas have always been against death penalty I proposed the idea of “panoptikon” prisons where prisoners would be under constant supervision just like modern prisons. Although I am against death penalty, I think that people who brake the law should still be punished in a more ethical way and I think prisons are a fair type of punishment. Capital Punishment is immoral in principle, unfair and discriminatory, no one deserved to die. I reject the idea of doing to criminals what they do to their victims, for example the punishment for rape cannot be rape. I am more in favor of severe punishment. In my Constitutional Code I address the need for punishment, but punishment such as death penalty are terrible for society and for human rights. I have always been concerned with ethics and morals, that’s why I proposed “Utilitarianism” and my single simple rule was “Act so as to produce the greatest good for the greatest number” In other words good is happiness, and happiness is pleasure therefore only good is pleasure.