Punishment was developed as a form of consequence that has to be met when a law is broken, or when a crime takes place the wrongdoer must be punished. The point of punishment is to teach a lesson to those who commit these crimes and so that everyone will not continue to commit crimes because they know that they will have to pay for their actions. One of these forms of punishment is capital punishment where a person is sentenced to death. In most cases it is when the wrongdoer kills a massive number of people. I believe that capital punishment is not justified because it's demonstrating that two wrongs make a right.
             The first wrong committed by the wrongdoer and the second wrong being committed by the law in killing the individual through execution. In my religion, Baptist Christian, it is thought to be wrong in killing others as a form of justified punishment. There are different ways of punishing, but the wrong way is through execution.
             An individual who is for the death penalty may say, "Yea, what if the wrongdoer killed your family, wouldn't you want to kill the person who did it?" My answer would be yes because I would want revenge. But this would be out of my own selfishness to seek revenge and not to uphold what is right in not taking another's life in exchange, which gets nothing accomplished. I am not trying to argue that my thoughts at the moment of revenge are morally correct and justified, for it is clouded by motives to kill and get revenge.
             On the other hand, think about the murderer's family and everyone who he is connected to. How are they going to feel even when they find out he killed someone? And worse of all how are they going to feel when he is sentenced to death and is actually put to death. This will be an unbearable pain for them to go through. Not that it won't be unbearable for the victim's family, but again two wrongs don't mak
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