A civilized society should not exercise punishment as cruel as death penalty? Discuss.
             Death penalty also known as capital punishment is a kind of punishment given to a criminal who has committed a heinous crime especially murder or treason by taking their life. The term 'capital' comes from the Indo-European kaput, meaning "head", through the Latin capitalist. Thus, capital punishment is the penalty for a crime so severe that it deserves decapitation (losing one's head). It is a legally ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime. In those law courts who practice capital punishment, its use is restricted to only few number of criminal offences , principally, treason and murder, that is, the deliberate premeditated killing of another person, or, even more commonly in recent years, killings that occur during the course of some other violent felony, such as robbery or rape. Prisoners who have been given the death penalty are kept separately from other prisoners in a special part of the prison, pending their execution. In some places these separated area is known as death row.
             Once a criminal commits a crime which is such heinous as rape and murder he should be given the cruelest punishment that is death penalty. Many people and abolitionist may argue that it is not ethical to execute a murderer. When one stops to think about this, the statement does not hold much water. This punishment seems to be the only fair punishment for someone who took someone's life for whatever reason. "An eye for an eye", someone took a persons life and the same should happen to them. If someone close to an abolitionist was murdered they would make a quick conversion to a supporter because they would want the criminal dead. This is why most abolitionists are people who grew up in a well off family and in a nice neighborhood. They support the penalty because chances a...