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capital punnishment and the death penalty. Capital Punishment and the Death
Penalty The issue of capital punishment is a controversial ...
Capital Punnishment. Capital Punishment Capital punishment is topic that has
been widely debated and for which many persuasive arguments ...
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Capital Punishment
Capital punishment is topic that has been widely debated and for which many persuasive arguments of distinctly opposing viewpoints are available. This is an issue that as always been about whether or not we, as a society, should presume to enforce a penalty that by definition irrevocably extinguishes the existence of another autonomous human being life.
Serving justice is the most common argument favoring the death penalty. Killing another human being to prevent them from killing someone else is not necessarily justice served. If a man serves a life-without-parole sentence in a maximum-security, solitary confinement prison, he will never murder another man again. He will not verbal contact with society, family or friends. His every move will monitored. He will not be able to vote. He will not be free. His right to live freely will be revoked. He will never harm another person. In my opinion capital punishment is an easy way out. Justice served.(McShane,nd)
Why then do we still execute? To serve as what we called justice. Most execution is for the families of the victims to bring a piece of mind. To so call makes a bad situation better. To kill a man because he is a murderer, in order to satisfy the victim's family's wishes, is revenge not justice, now that is murder. To believe that justice has been serviced by taking one life for another. Nowhere in our Constitution or our laws does it state that the job of the government is to take a life for life. Even if the death penalty were not amoral, and even if the idea was supported in our Constitution, the system we use to determine who lives and who dies is biased and corrupt. God is one man alone, who gives humans the right to take someone else life, at that point his/her soul is already dead and gone to hell, and you have just joined them. Some of you may think that capital punishment would scare away other criminals from crimes but that is not the case. People who plan...
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