Capital punishment has been in place for 2 centuries. It has been outlawed in certain states but it is still used by our government. It tends to promotes fear which has been a method used for centuries to keep order. And over the past 10 years an average of 40 prisoners are executed yearly. But it also could be quite costly. The death penalty is 10 times more expensive than a life sentence. One side might say that peace and safely are worth the cost and that it is for the sake of the people. It may give them peace of mind which could keep them focus on their lives. Some debate if the government justified to be able to choose whether someone lives or die. And so that 's where the debate of morals and justice comes along which determines if the
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What is right path to choose when deciding whether to support it or not. Well in my opinion, Capital Punishment goes against morals. How could the the government be given the power to play god with criminals. Is life that disposable too them. It is not justifiable to takes someone 's life, it would be no different from what criminal did. A horrendous act being punished by yet another horrendous act is not logical. Also this law goes against the country 's constitution that we are sworn to follow. When people thought it was wrong to electrocute someone to death they simply changed their methods to a lethal injection. They made it seem that at least they died peacefully to make public more acceptable over it. It had only sugar coated the uglynest of the whole thing. And in all the process to execute someone instead of imprisoning them cost ten times which come out of the taxpayers pockets. Why would they make us fund such a terrible law. I had stated before that by erasing the problem gives people peace of mind, they are just running from your fears and people are being executed because of that. Not to mention that this law had flaws that should be taken into consideration. Most of the criminals who were executed consisted of people who could not fund their case and racial minorities. So the system itself did not work. Also the cases where people were falsely accused and had not given enough time to be proven innocent. So the wrong people were being punished for no reason. That is why i believe that capital punishment un constitutional and morally
What is right path to choose when deciding whether to support it or not. Well in my opinion, Capital Punishment goes against morals. How could the the government be given the power to play god with criminals. Is life that disposable too them. It is not justifiable to takes someone 's life, it would be no different from what criminal did. A horrendous act being punished by yet another horrendous act is not logical. Also this law goes against the country 's constitution that we are sworn to follow. When people thought it was wrong to electrocute someone to death they simply changed their methods to a lethal injection. They made it seem that at least they died peacefully to make public more acceptable over it. It had only sugar coated the uglynest of the whole thing. And in all the process to execute someone instead of imprisoning them cost ten times which come out of the taxpayers pockets. Why would they make us fund such a terrible law. I had stated before that by erasing the problem gives people peace of mind, they are just running from your fears and people are being executed because of that. Not to mention that this law had flaws that should be taken into consideration. Most of the criminals who were executed consisted of people who could not fund their case and racial minorities. So the system itself did not work. Also the cases where people were falsely accused and had not given enough time to be proven innocent. So the wrong people were being punished for no reason. That is why i believe that capital punishment un constitutional and morally