Editing Capital punishment (section)

===Retribution===
{{See also|Revenge#Revenge dynamics}}
[[File: Karl Morgenschweis prays for condemned prisoner.jpg|thumb|Execution of a [[war crimes|war criminal]] in Germany in 1946]]
Supporters of the death penalty argued that death penalty is morally justified when applied in murder especially with aggravating elements such as for murder of police officers, [[child murder]], [[torture murder]], multiple [[homicide]] and [[mass killing]] such as [[terrorism]], [[massacre]] and genocide. This argument is strongly defended by [[New York Law School]]'s Professor [[Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead|Robert Blecker]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty_profiles/robert_blecker/ |title=New York Law School :: Robert Blecker |publisher=Nyls.edu |access-date=14 April 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902231929/http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty_profiles/robert_blecker/ |archive-date=2 September 2013}}</ref> who says that the punishment must be painful in proportion to the crime. Eighteenth-century philosopher [[Immanuel Kant]] defended a more extreme position, according to which every murderer deserves to die on the grounds that loss of life is incomparable to any penalty that allows them to remain alive, including life imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.american.edu/dgolash/Kant_on_Punishment.html/ |title=Immanuel Kant, The Philosophy of Right |publisher=American.edu |access-date=6 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217232041/http://www1.american.edu/dgolash/Kant_on_Punishment.html |archive-date=17 February 2014 }}</ref>

Some abolitionists argue that retribution is simply revenge and cannot be condoned. Others while accepting retribution as an element of criminal justice nonetheless argue that [[life without parole]] is a sufficient substitute. It is also argued that the punishing of a killing with another death is a relatively unusual punishment for a violent act, because in general violent crimes are not punished by subjecting the perpetrator to a similar act (e.g. rapists are, typically, not punished by [[judicial corporal punishment|corporal punishment]], although it may be inflicted in Singapore, for example).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/capitalpunishment/against_1.shtml#section_4 |title=Ethics – Capital punishment: Arguments against capital punishment |publisher=BBC |date=1 January 1970 |access-date=11 February 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209003504/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/capitalpunishment/against_1.shtml#section_4 |archive-date=9 February 2014}}</ref>