Capital_Punishment

Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Capital punishment is a legal infliction of the death penalty. Capital punishment is obviously the most severe form of criminal punishment (Encarta). Capital punishment is a highly controversial and emotional way of dealing with violent criminals (Vila 25). The main alternative to the death penalty is long-term or life imprisonment (Encarta). Capital punishment has been around for thousands of years as a means of eradicating criminals. A giant debate started between the people for or against the execution. The earliest arguments both for and against capital punishment were taken directly from the Bible (Vila 25). The supporters claim that if you take a life you should pay with your life or an eye for an eye. The people against the death penalty bring up a chance of sentencing the innocent and how the death penalty is inhumane. The first evidence of capital punishment was mentioned in the Code of Hammurabi in 1750 B.C. (Encarta). The Bible mentions death as the penalty for more than thirty different crimes. For example, “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death,” is an example of murder (Bible Exodus 21:12). The Bible also suggests stoning a woman for having sex if not married and “wrought folly on Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house” (Bible death, penalty, punishment, guernsey, capital, encarta, court, example, trial, state, execution, crimes, bible, been, process, one, life, injection, supreme, row, gas, first, after, about, zimring, system, since, shall, sent, rights, prisoners, people, out, new, minutes, means, man, lawyers, human, fact, eye, executions, defendant, death, criminals, courts, claim, chair, case, before, appeal