Capital Punishment Essay, Research Paper

These people who are on death row are criminals, there’s no disputing that. They have been tried and convicted. We are talking about how they should be punished. It is a far worse punishment to have no freedom and all the time in the world to think about why you lost it. Are we not murderers ourselves if we condone this? Benjamin Franklin once wisely said, “Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving one sets you below him.” We are no better than the criminal as a society by putting them to death. Also, don’t we teach our children it’s not right to hit someone even if they started it? To borrow an old phrase, “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” It doesn’t solve anything to first set a rule and then use the same thing abolished to inflict punishment. That does nothing but make us murders ourselves.