Designed to hurt

If something is gladly accepted or enjoyed, then it’s not punishment.

Imprisonment, fines or community service.

Authorized by a legal entity.

A penalty for doing what the law forbids.

To prevent people from breaking the law.

It's only fair for a criminal to pay for what he/she has damaged.

We ought to punish people who do wrong because they deserve to be punished.

It would be wrong not to punish criminals, since failing to punish them would give them less than what they deserve.

Egalitarian equivalency

Proportional equivalency

Currently, 19 states and the District of Columbia don’t have the death penalty.

Justice system must ensure that people are never wrongfully executed for crimes they did not commit.

An issue is the evidence of racial bias in death penalty sentencing.

There are racial disparities in the number of prisoners executed.

Death penalty cases are expensives.

John Stuart Mill

Immanuel Kant

Opponents of the death penalty.

Catholic Church

Three chemicals are used in a lethal injection.

Several states suspended lethal injection out of the concern that the practice wasn't humane.

Drug crimes, an increase in three strikes violations, and laws that lessen prisoners released early.

Mental illness.

Black and Hispanic males are imprisoned at higher rates .

Prison system ought to be replaced with a system that is focused on principles of reparation, restoration, and rehabilitation.

It implies that the person isn't responsable.