chair or injection? The end result is the same, a person is dead, and it is very much a premeditated act carried out in a very mechanical, systematic way. In some respects, capital punishment is no better than the actions of a serial killer; it is killing for the sake of killing. I feel that if a person is deemed to be a threat to society then he should be removed from society and not be permitted to live in society. When you make a man or a woman sit for years on death row, not knowing from one day to the next if they will live or die, then I feel that this is cruel and unusual punishment. According to human rights activist Stephen Bright, "Life is the most fundamental human right there is, the death penalty is like torture – it's beyond the pale. Most people say it's not right to cut a thief's fingers off but it's ok to cut off their head?" (Beaudoin 3).
             The next argument that proponents of the death penalty will espouse is that the death penalty is a deterrent to future murders. I
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