Is Capital Murder Good Or Bad

What if we lived in a world full of happiness and never had to worry about anything? Everyone accepted everyone, there was never an argument or a falling out between anyone. The world was great and there was never any hurt, that’s a world that I want to live in but that’s not our world. The world is filled with evil, but there is nothing worst in this world than an evil mind. The mind can push us to do almost anything if we sit and ponder on it. What is Capital Murder? Capital Murder is any murder that makes the perpetrator eligible for capital punishment, the death penalty. Capital murder is a lot like murder in the first degree, the penalties for both range between the death penalty or life in prison without parole. For someone to be convicted with Capital Murder, there would’ve had to been enough evidence available to prove that the murder had been planned out or thought about before it actually took place and that the murderer had the intention to kill or harm the victim. Polly Hannah Klaas was a 12 year old girl who was kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis while at a slumber party with her two friends. The man walked in the girls bedroom and tied the girls up and pulled pillowcases over their heads and told them to count to a thousand. Davis then kidnapped Polly. …show more content…
Murder in the second degree is a non-premeditated killing, resulting from an assault or an argument that led to the death of a person. Second degree murder differs from first degree murder, which is premeditated. It is the killing with the intent to harm but not the intent to kill. The punishment for this type of behavior is 30-40 years to life in prison. A good example of second degree murder would be like two people in an argument and it getting out of hand leading to one person shooting the other in the leg with the intent to wound them, but then the victim ends up bleeding to