Captiol Puishment Essay, Research Paper

CAPITOL PUNISHMENT

Capitol Punishment also known as the death penalty. To kill or not to kill. This is an extremely controversial question in today?s society. The people who are for it believe feel that if you take the life someone then your life should also be taken. But then there are people who are on the opposite side of the argument who feel that such a penalty should be banned due to its cruel and unjust way of punishment. Should we keep it or not? And if it is kept, how do we determine if who should be sentenced to death? An easy way to completely answer this question is to totally nullify Capitol 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 unintentional death feelings are that perpetrators should have the right to live rather then be sentenced to death, yet at the same time the have to face every day with the fact that they killed someone, these people are the people that should be sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole. On the other hand, such as voluntary murder, the ideas are somewhat similar. They believe that murder does not deserve the death penalty. Chances are that if a person is insane enough to kill another person in the first place, they aren?t going to care what happens to them. They too realize that their execution, in most cases, is going to be short and painless. This icing just a punishment for someone who has inflicted severe pain upon another life.

Our court system, after iniatiting a life sentence without parole, should not offer these killers the comforts they have in jail. These people should be treated 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. Is this true? Maybe, Maybe not. While a criminal is in the process of committing a crime, chances are that he is not contemplating what his punishment will be for his actions. More than likely his thoughts are upon getting what he wants, whether it is something tangible, such as money, or something as valuable as one?s life. There have been studies done in areas by criminologists who have been trying to find a direct relationship between use of the death penalty and the murder rate. Their results? Negative. They have failed to discover any connection between the two. Therefore, use of capitol punishment will not affect the crime rate of any area in any such way. The third and possibly the most important reason why capitol punishment should be eliminated is because what is stated in the Bible. The sixth commandment specially says, ?Thou shalt not kill?. If someone is executed, our court system is deliberately defying our Lord?s laws. John 8:7 says, ?Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.? This supports the idea that only a man who is not a sinner has the right to eliminate someone from this Earth. Many feel the only person or being who is without sin is god. They also believe that He is the only existence who has the right to take someone?s life, or ?cast the first stone.? This in turn means we, as humans are not entitled to that privilege.

The use of capitol punishment in today?s society is an incredibly controversial issue that will require a great deal of contemplation to answer the questions: to kill or not to kill? Many feel that the annihilation of this practice will solve a large number of problems and questions about the death penalty that haunt or society today.

My essay showed a viewpoint as a person who is against the death penalty. People who are for it feel that if a person commits a crime as severe as death that death to them self is the only fair punishment. But is this right? Some people feel this way, obviously I do not feel this way. This is an argument that is going to battled over for many years to come and something that will never be solved. Both sides of the argument show very valid points to prove their case. But neither side can be proven right or wrong! So what is the solution to this? No one knows I don?t think anyone ever will. Maybe one day our world will be peaceful enough to where we don?t have to worry about things like this and there will in turn be no further arguments over this. But sadly to say this day is not near. One other point I would like to make is that there is only one way I that I personally feel is not cruel and unjust, that is the form of lethal injection. As far as we know the person does not suffer from this and if in fact the person does it is only for a short time. Hanging, Gas chamber, and also the electric chair are too cruel. The person does suffer from these and it is an unfair way of death

Capitol Punishment- Ryne Douglas Pearson / Mass Market Paperback / Morrow, William & Co / July 1996.

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