Assignment:
Ethics, Logic and Capital Punishment
Your text discusses moral arguments advanced about capital punishment. The articles "Killing in Good Conscience: What's Wrong With Sunstein and Vermeule's Lesser Evil Argument for Capital Punishment and Other Human Rights Violations?" and How social media is pushing the limits of legal ethics address ethical issues regarding the death penalty (Blumenson, 2007; Harris, 2011). In this discussion, address capital punishment and its implementation in the United States. Examine its use and application against the logical fallacy of "two wrongs make a right." If capital punishment can be proven to be a logical fallacy, discuss the efficacy of its continued use.
Guided Response: Your analyses here will be rooted in both logic and ethics. What is the best, rational argument in support of capital punishment? How can the pros to capital punishment overcome the logical fallacy of "two wrongs make a right"?
Required Resources
Text
Banks, C. (2016). Criminal justice ethics: Theory and practice (4th ed.).
Chapter: The Ethics of Criminal Justice Policy Making
Chapter: Media Ethics and Criminal Justice
Chapter: A Sense of Justice
Articles
Blumenson, E. (2007). Killing in good conscience: What's wrong with Sunstein and Vermeule's lesser evil argument for capital punishment and other human rights violations? New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 10(2), 210-238.
The full-text version of this article is available in the ProQuest database located in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. This article identifies problems within ethics arguments regarding the death penalty. It will assist you in responding to this week's discussion, "Ethics, Logic, and Capital Punishment."
Harris, D. (2011, February 26). How social media is pushing the limits of legal ethics.
This article explores how social media affects legal ethical issues. This article will assist you in completing this week's assignment, "Ethics, Media, and Capital Punishment."