Capital_Punishment

Capital Punishment Capital Punishment The use of capital punishment has been a permanent fixture in society since the earliest civilizations, and continues to be used as a form of punishment in countries today. It has been used for various crimes ranging from the desertion of soldiers during wartime to the more heinous crimes of serial killers. However, the mere fact that this brutal form of punishment and revenge has been the policy of many nations in the past, does not subsequently warrant its implementation in today's society. The death penalty is morally and socially unethical, and should be construed as cruel and unusual punishment since it has no proof of acting as a deterrent, and risks the atrocious and unacceptable injustice of executing innocent people. As long as capital punishment exists in our society it will continue to spark the injustice which it has failed to curb. Capital Punishment is immoral and unethical. It does not matter who does the killing because when a life is taken by another, it is always wrong. By killing a human being the state lessens the value of life and actually contributes to the growing sentiment in today's society that certain individuals are worth more than others. punishment, capital, death, penalty, people, innocent, life, executed, society, since, focus, crime, been, support, state, church, states, should, person, murder, yet, united, sentence, out, number, never, koch, injustice, fact, discriminatory, convicted, bedau, arbitrary, actually, according,