The death penalty has always been the subject of several controversies in the juridical field. Many argue that it is morally acceptable to terminate one’s life as a punishment for particularly heinous crimes, whereas others maintain that capital punishment is an immoral and barbaric practice. On the one hand, if one follows Immanuel Kant’s model of morality, ethical rationalism, then capital punishment infringes upon universal maxims. On the other hand, utilitarianism uses moral mathematics to determine which outcome generates the most happiness for the most people; in this instance, capital…