Capital Punishment Is Wrong

Imagine that you are going to a baseball game with some friends. You pick up your friends in a car and start driving down a highway. There is a semi truck carrying large blocks of cement. This truck is in front of you on the highway. The truck hits an object on the road and swerves across the highway causing an accident which you and your friends are involved in because your car struck the truck. A block of cement lays on top of your car crushing your friend in the passenger seat from their stomach down while they are bleeding out. You have two options death or you let your friend bleed to death while they scream to you to end their life. Killing another person is justifiable in only certain situations such as Capital punishment, Assisted suicide, and the case of George and Lennie. …show more content…
In an article it says that “All fifty states average fourteen executions annually”(David). Nevertheless “Death penalty costs can be expensive, but in the end saves lives”(David). Basically what the evidence is trying to explain that people are already being sentenced to capital punishment, but it is expensive in some cases, keeping you safe from dangerous criminals which is capital punishment. Consequently “The more severe the penalty the more it deters”(Jacoby). “When the death penalty is consistently enforced, a significant number of homicides will be prevented”(Jacoby). What the article means by this is that capital punishment “scares” people away from doing murderous activities because instead of being put in jail they are put to