Should The Death Penalty Be Allowed Or Not To Implement The Death Penalty

This is a paper is regarding the issues on the death penalty. The decision to implement the death penalty or not to implement the death penalty. Should the death penalty be allowed or abolished? First off though what is the death penalty? Deathy penalty has a couple of names such as captial punishment or execution. However all these terms mean the same which means punishment by death. Death penalty is the punishment of execution, adminitstered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Crimes that may result in the death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offenses. The sentence that carries out a punishment in this manner is a death sentence (1). Death penalty strikes many people to have heated and highly exessive debates …show more content…
There are two main views on which people tend to go to or relate to and two opinions on which they take a side on whether it be for or against the death penalty. One view is which the person is for the death penalty and supports it. Which is when some people base their belief on the old saying “an eye for an eye” or the law of retaliation. Which is the principle that a person who has injured another person is penalized to a similar degree, or in softer interpretations, the victim receives the estimated value of the injury in compensation (4). If a criminal goes out and committs murder on someone you know or a family member you want them to suffer the same pain that your loved one or the person you knew had to suffer or go through. It helps honor the victim in the situation somehow making the family members or individual feel a certain justice or that they can have closure for losing that person close to them. It tends to make that person who is going through greif for losing a loved one feel a sense of peace knowing that the person can never kill again or do what they did to another individual. This tragedy that struck them will never happen to another individual and ensures them that this terrible crime won’t have the possibility of happening again to a future victim. Also they view the death penalty as a cheaper route than keeping the prisoner in a life time sentence in prison. Saying it costs more to keep an inmate in prison and keeping them alive than just executing them. Another view pertaining to the death penalty includes the opposite view saying that the death penalty is wrong and cruel. The death penalty gives the government power to take an individuals life. Some refer to it as them trying to play God in this matter. Many people believe according to their belief system that only God decides whether an individual is to die or not, it is not up to the