Habeas Corpus Poetry Analysis

I have chosen to conduct on Jill McDonough’s Habeas Corpus book of sonnets. This book widely and deeply talks about the execution of several people through history and adds on how there punishments were determined. The writer Jill McDonough beautifully put historical events in a book in the forms of poems that had clear questions. These poems strongly insist and stand on the aspect of the individuals being executed due to what they stood for. This was created to ensure the reason of their death and is well known. It can be weighed out as a cause worthy for death as a punishment. The poems seem to have a differing opinion about and on the choice of punishment judged as death. The poems ask the question of if it is worth killing someone for what they believe in even without having any proof against them. It strongly opposes the sentencing of individuals by word of mouth without a extensive conduct being done. Jill McDonough book strongly …show more content…
In the start of the understanding, punishment is explained as "the infliction of harm, consequences or the denial of certain privileges such as freedom, by an authorized person or persons on an individual belief to be guilty of breaking and going against the law or more generally of having done the wrong thing. (Edmunds, 1991)
This said, it can be understood that, capital punishment is an extension based in the notion of punishment; it exacts a higher penalty and consequence on a greater wrong that has been done or could equally be seen as the highest penalty exacted on the biggest wrongs faced and done in a society. The highest form of penalty/punishment will be the penalty of death for the doing of a specific crime as compared to the denial of one’s freedom or any access to material possessions he/she