The death penalty between the sacred texts and man-made laws "A critical analytical study in applied ethics"

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Teacher-Faculty of Arts, Kafr El-Sheikh University

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The death penalty is one of the most important and dangerous punishments stipulated in the sacred texts and man-made laws, and the punishment is rooted in history, as there is hardly an organized human gathering that did not apply this punishment, and despite that, it is the most controversial punishment among its opponents who want to abolish it completely , and a supporter of it wants to expand the cases in which it is applied, and between the two trends appears the third direction that sees the retention of the punishment while limiting its application to specific cases and strict conditions.

The punishment raises many problems, especially those related to its application to the incapacitated, minors, and pregnant women, as well as its application to those accused of political crimes, and the existence of racial discrimination in the sentencing and implementation of the punishment, and finally the length of time between the sentence and its implementation. We deal with punishment in the sacred texts and man-made laws, and the controversy over its abolition or retention, and the ethical problems it raises in our research.
 

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