The Penalty for Premeditated Murder in Islamic Moral Philosophy

Abstract

This study researched the death penalty for murder in the Morality of Islam, to determine this penalty is ethical or not ethical, and to Fortification Islamic library in applied ethics studies.  Today Human rights organizations aim to abolish the death penalty because the death penalty is killing and revenge. The Human rights organizations are ethical and humanitarian, but ethics contains many of the right behaviors like mercy and justice, justice is forth virtue at Plato philosophy, so justice is important virtue like mercy. In some cases death penalty is right and justice, this is what the research proves it by analyzing the punishment of murder and its consequences in morality of Islam.   The researcher adopted a descriptive, analytical and critical methodology, Depending on the Abdullah Deraz methods in morality of Islam. I recommend researchers to search in applied ethics in Islam this is to try to see it from the realist perspective that achieves worldly, eschatological and humanistic interests.