Forms of Punishment in the Judicial System

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By Kendrick Tran

Punishment wasn't always people being let go with a financial fine and calling it good. Punishment back in the earlier times were much more gruesome and based itself on the philosophy of retribution. Also known in more popular terms, "an eye for an eye". With this concept, whatever punishment a person inflicted on an individual/group of people or on property, the punishment would equate to that. For example, if a person were to kill another person, than they would be punished by death. In this case though, there were many forms of the death penalty. 


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Punishment including stoning, beheading, burning were all forms of capital punishment, a term referencing the punishment for a crime by death. With that said, many of the crimes committed back then were not all punished by the death. The concept of an "eye for an eye" means than small, petty crimes were paid in return with a lesser threat. These could have consisted of whipping as an appropriate punishment depending on the crime. The world has evolved a great deal out of the necessity of controlling the violent behaviors that people can emit. This is interesting to me because by taking a look at our modern stance on punishment, we focus more on fines and jail time in order to deter destructive behavior. As opposed to earlier times, they focused on deterring bad behavior through the example of others. With that said, it seems that even if people know a crime has a death penalty for committing that crime, it will not deter some people in doing it anyways. This broaches a whole new world of philosophical sayings that cannot be answered in a simple post, a resource that can definitely help if your interest is piqued is the website philisophynow.org. It has a comprehensive section of information that talks about the death penalty and the reason it is still used today.

 References
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2635&context=jclc

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