Death Penalty Jesus says "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions" (Mathew 6:14-15). Therefore, if you do not forgive the murderer for his ...

Capital punishment is an important issue because it deals with life, the value of life, and personal liberties. The death penalty has been in existence for as long as America has been a country. Execution was quite common in the early colonial days, with punishment of death resulting from s...

The Death penalty Dear President GW Bush, As you know capital punishment has existed throughout most of our nations''s history. Personally it is not the right procedure to deal with criminal justice. More than five hundr...

Capital Punishment – The Death Penalty Murder? The helmeted man sits immobile, strapped and bolted into the enforced chair. The switch is closed. One thousand volts of electricity surge into his delicate flesh, searing his nervous system. The man, despite his shackles, jerks. His head ...

When turning on the television, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, one is bombarded with the news of arrest, murders, homicides, and other such tragedies. There are many things that I don't agree with in today's society, but out of all the wrongdoing that takes place, I believe murder inc...

The Death Penalty (Against It) The Death Penalty serves no purpose in the world today. It is a waste of the tax payers hard earned money to kill somebody that isn't a good enough punishment. It does not settle anything, it just wastes our money to kill them where they could be su...

How would you feel if you we lived by Hammurabi's code and you stole something and lost your hand therefore keeping you from ever doing that again. This is same principle as death penalty but just at a lower level. What if we the states we live in retain the right for the death penalty, where...

The not so Clean-Cut Issue of Capital Punishment Former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, writes about a New York man who while serving four life sentences in a New York prison for murder, effectively lured a woman corrections officer into an office where he then strangled her and mutilated her body. Th...

We live in a country that accepts the death penalty, the killing of someone when they kill someone. Growing amounts of people believe that the death penalty should be abolished. Conflicting views on the issue make it hard for a person to take a stand. Who gives the government a right to play God?...

1st Negative case You have heard from the affirmative side and you may disagree or agree with some of their points, but the reality is that their plan will not and cannot succeed in today's society. True, on paper the plan looks very good, but it will not work. Today's present system,...

Statistics say that it costs over 100,000 dollars a year to keep a prisoner in jail. This money comes out of every tax payers paycheck. Why would we pay money out of our own pockets to keep murders alive. They get a roof over their head, food to eat, television to watch, exercise rooms to exe...

Death Penalty The debate over the death penalty continues to confront our society. The proponents of capital punishment believe that the death penalty serves as the ultimate justice and that it will, in the end, deter murderers and promote the sacredness of human life. Opponents of the dea...

Death penalty paper Try to imagine that you have just been sentenced, and the verdict was guilty and the sentence was capital punishment. What the courts did not now was that you where wrongly convicted of the crime and where really innocent. After months of trying to appeal the case, on the...

I write this letter in response to an essay concerning capital punishment, which I recently read on the website wowessays.com. In the essay, Patricia A. Stegall argues a position in support of the death penalty. She claims that conviction of certain crimes requires a mandatory death sentence. The...

Death PenaltyGood or Bad?The death penalty has been around for thousands of years. There has been over hundreds of different methods. Today there are only a handful that are legal and being used. Since the death penalty has been around so long it must be a good thing and it must be working.In the...

When a man is caught stealing another man's wallet, he is punished for his crime. He may be fined or sentenced to jail. It is up to a judge or jury to decide. When a man murders another man, he also needs to be punished. We live in a country that uses the death penalty and the penalty should stay in...

The death penalty currupts, and shows barbaric examples to our society. To fight the war against murders and brutal serial killers by murdering more people is a concept I do understand for many reasons. The Death Penalty is a penalty that does not have a lot of positive feedback for our society be...

Death Penalty I am the mother of the young girl who is kidnapped and beaten to death. I am the sister of the woman who is raped, tortured, and murdered. I am the wife of the man who I was forced to watch be viciously slaughtered because he has a different opinion than another person. And I am th...

Capital Punishment- A Matter of Life and Death Capital Punishment: the penalty of death for the commission of a crime When turning on the television, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, we are bombarded with news of arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and other such tragedie...

In biblical times, people abided by God's law, known as The Ten Commandments. Today' society is based on certain rules and laws that everyone must follow to keep our society running smoothly. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a punishment enforced on those who have ...

THE DEATH PENALTY:Is it Cruel and Unusual orIs it Just Punishment? In order to determine whether the death penalty is to be considered cruel and unusual punishment, it is necessary to first define each word in order to get full understanding of the issue. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary...

For a long time capital punishment has been thought to be flawed and unfair. It has been proven by certain civil rights groups such as the ACLU that the circumstances surrounding the murder or of the accused get more people convicted than the actual evidence against them. For example if you are poor...

Capital punishment has been a cause for debate for many years, and people continue to disagree on the topic. There are many reasons why the death penalty should be used, but the three most important are that it deters potential murderers from committing crimes, it saves our government money in the l...

The Death Penalty: Deadly to AllEven though the Bible states one should turn the other cheek, it also states punishment should be "An eye for an eye," and "A tooth for a tooth." Capital punishment has been around since the beginning of time, and it will probably be around until the end. The Suprem...

Death penalty or capital punishment is one of the most passionately, actively and persistently debated topics in American political, legal and social circles. It occupies the same place in political agenda of a new presidential candidate as abortion or gun control. Opponents of death penalty base ...