Capital_Punishment__The_Ultimate_Denial_of_Human_Rights

Capital Punishment: The Ultimate Denial of Human Rights Capital Punishment: The Ultimate Denial of Human Rights While analyzing all of the articles that we have received in class, one in particular captured my interest. It was article # 14 entitled, “Dead Wrong.” This article best represents my viewpoint on the topic of capital punishment. It states that at least two thirds of Americans favor a suspension of the death penalty for reasons of fairness and money. Along with those two thirds of Americans, I too favor the suspension of the death penalty. I feel that it is a denial of human rights and also increases people’s tendency toward violence. Two wrongs do not make a right. If we can say that killing a person is legally wrong, how can we support a system that does justify 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 abandonment of soldiers during wartime to the more dreadful crimes of serial killers. However, the mere fact that this brutal form of punishment and revenge has punishment, capital, death, penalty, wrong, states, killing, life, human, should, been, society, morally, evidence, cruel, crimes, violence, value, until, united, two, support, state, since, reasons, innocent, feel, executed, body, volts, violent, unethical, topic, today's, time, thirds, suspension, suspended, right, read, proven, prove, person, people, past, over, others, new, money, justify