Capital Punishment
The death penalty is a necessary evil that has a positive effect on societytoday. It is an effective deterent of crime as well as a safeguard forsociety. It also helps to keep order in our cities. Furthermore, I fell itis a just and effective punishment for those who have commited crimes heinousThe death penalty is not a new idea in our world. Its origins date back over3,700 years to the Babylonian civilization, where it was prescribed for avariety of crimes. (Capital Punishment p.10). It was also greatly used in theGreek and Roman empires. It continued into England during the Middle Ages,and then to the American colonies where it exists still today. In thecolonies, death was a prescribed punishment for crimes such as: murder, rape,arson, and perjury. In America today, the main crime deserving death isobviously murder. (Capital Punishment p.11-15).Does the death penalty truly deter crimes and murder? This question is atthe heart of a heated political controversy over the punishment. Opposers tothe death penalty say no because of the large amount of people on death rowtoday. They also say that states that have the death penalty have a higher
In the May 11, 1998 issue of JET magazine it stated thatover 50% of all blacks favor the death penalty. Also many people believethat by not executing a victim^Òs murderer, one is putting higher value on themurderer^Òs life than on the victim. nothing to make it probablethat the crime was an exception to his general character rather than aconsequence of it, then. They saythat two wrongs don^Òt make a right, and that God and the bible states that^Óthou shall not^Ô(Exodus: 10 Commandments) kill. An example of this is England practiced capital punishment throughoutthe early 20th century, and had a lower crime rate than that of any large UScity. At the end of last year, 34 states and the federal prisonsystem held 3,335 men and women (44 females) on death row: 1876 whites, 1406blacks, 28 American Indians, 17 Asians, and 8 of other races. In the first half of the year (January-June) there were 26murders in Utah.
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