"Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense."(Wikipedia) According to the existentialist point of view the individuals have the freedom to create their own destiny, taking into consideration that he must be aware of the positive or negative consequences that will result for his actions. Death penalty would be considered by most people as an unethical way to terminate a person’s life. According to my existentialist point of view there will be no right or wrong answer to decide whether death penalty is ethical or not. Again, each person has the right to decide from himself regarding the opinion or decision of others. If death penalty is considered ethical to a person then than person will choose to use that capital punishment, but always knowing what the consequences in the future could be. The other way around, many people would consider capital punishment as unethical so those people would decide to de against capital punishment. You can tell that the ones against capital punishment will not have any consequences in the future because they only have an opinion for it, while they don’t take action and apply the death penalty they would be considered safe. Existentialist, again, would agree that there is no wrong or right answer when determining whether or not capital punishment is ethical or not. The only thing they know for sure is that every person has the right and freedom to choose for him or herself, however knowing their limitations and the consequences for their actions.
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In my opinion there are people that deserve death penalty. Men that rape, kill or torture others deserve this. There are certain actions that should have severe punishments such as this.
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