Capital Punishment: Is it effective in discouraging crime?
             Is capital punishment moral or immoral? That's the question that's being brought up
             I believe that capital punishment isn't right. Taking someone's life will not solve any
             problems that the family of both the victim and the murder have. It might help with
             the grieving process for the victim's family, but other then that it will actually make
             the victim's family feel guilty by having to do with the decision of making the
             murder/s suffer for what he/she has done to the victim/s and the victim's family.
             Many people including me oppose the death penalty, chiefly because it's considered
             cruel. Also it's based on your race and money wise. Critics also warn against the
             risk of executing mistakenly convicted people. Supporter of capital punishment
             believe that in certain circumstances, people who take human life deserve to lose
             their own lives. Many supporters argue that the threat of death discourages crime
             more effectively than the threat of prison does. But studies have shown no unusual
             increase in murders when the death penalty is abolished.
             In the mid-1990's, 38 states of the United States had laws that allowed the death
             penalty. These laws were influenced by a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision. The
             court had banned the death penalty as it was then imposed. It ruled that "the
             imposition and carrying out of the death penalty" was cruel and unusual punishment
             in violation of the 8th and 14th amendments to the Constitution. But the court's
             decision left open the possibility that the death penalty might be constitutional--if
             imposed for certain crimes and applied according to clear standards.
             Many other countries, including most European and Latin American nations, have
             abolished the death penalty since 1900. Canada did so in 1976. In the early 1990's,
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