INTRO CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. Felony and Sentencing

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Felony and Sentencing
Every country guided by the rule of law must have a mechanism of bringing to justice criminal offenders. Criminal offenders are subjected to various forms of punishment and to different magnitudes ultimately to serve for fair treatment of the offended and prevent future occurrence of crimes. The objectives of punishment can be of different forms; incapacitation, retribution, rehabilitation, restitution, and deterrence. A different controversial form of punishment is capital punishment, whereby a criminal offense if brought to justice through a death sentence.
Upholding capital punishment for criminal offenders is a necessary evil. Despite the strong argument against the execution of criminal offenders, death sentence serves as the perfect price criminal offender of crimes with high magnitude ought to pay. According to Siegel and Worrall, death sentence serves the ultimate deterrent effect on crimes such as murder. The chances of one committing a crime bearing in mind that the punishment to such a crime can lead to loss of life is very minimal. Also, in the case that a crime unfortunately occurs and the culprit is executed, elimination of reoccurrence of an offense by the executed culprit is assured and the execution serves as an example to other criminals with similar motives. Besides, death sentence ensures that the culprit suffers adequately for their wrongdoing and therefore justice is guaranteed.[Siegel, Larry J., and John L. Worrall. “Chapter 11| Punishment and Sentencing.” Introduction to Criminal Justice, 16th ed, Cengage Learning, 2016, pp. 449.]
Tit for that is a fair game. Perpetrators of murder crimes should be executed for justice to prevail. In the case where the crime victim is rendered helpless in the process, even without the offense resulting in murder, the perpetrator should be executed as well. Any offense that can escalate to murder, such as robbery with violence, especially those which involve the use of lethal weapons, should be punishable by death. However, there are exceptions. The right to self-defense is part of the basic human rights that are entitled to everybody. Death as a result of self-defense should not be liable to capital punishment.[Lee, Hsin-Wen. “A New Societal Self-Defense Theory of Punishment—The Rights-Protection Theory.” Philosophia, vol. 46, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 340. Springer Link, doi:10.1007/s11406-017-9931-z.]
Culprits guilty of similar offenses that arise under the same circumstance should be subjected to the...