Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment: a.k.a. the death penalty. To kill or not to kill. This is an extremely controversial question in

today's society. The number of people who are for it still believe in the saying, " an eye for an eye, a tooth for a

tooth." These are the people who feel if you intentionally take the life of someone else, then yours should be taken

as well. But then there are the other number of people who feel the death penalty should be banned because of its

cruel and unjust way of punishment. Should we keep it or not? And if it is kept, how do we determine who should be

sentenced to death? An easy way to answer these questions is to totally nullify capital punishment completely.

One reason why the death penalty is so controversial is because many feel its cruel ways of punishment are

unnecessary, even if the crime is murder, whether it be premeditated or unintentional. They believe there are other

ways of condemnation besides execution. In the case of an unintentional death feelings are that the perpetrators

should have the right to live, but have to face each day with the fact that they killed someone weighing on their

conscience. On the other hand, such as with a voluntary murder, the ideas are somewhat similar. They believe the

murderer doesn't deserve the death penalty. Chances are if a person is insane enough to kill another human being in

the first place, they aren't going to care what happens to them. They

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realize that their execution, in most cases, is going to be short and painless. This isn't a just punishment for someone

who has inflicted severe pain upon another life. Our court system, after initiating a life sentence without parole,

should not offer these killers the comforts they have in jail. They should be treated more or less like animals. In

short, let the ones who institute a crime unwillingly live, but do not let the punishment be as severe as it would for a

voluntary criminal.

There are a vast number of people who believe that increasing the use of the death penalty will abate the crime rate.

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