April 10th 2016
NLS290 Issue Paper
Taught by Mrs. Misty
Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment serves justice and humans equality
Ever since the Big Bang and the foundation of Earth people had a Capital Punishment until the mid-19th century. People in the past were not as many as people nowadays and they are certainly different in the way they think and live. Zimring (2004) says “Until rather recently, the penalty of death was a universal feature of criminal justice. Students of European ideas and institutions usually credit Cesare Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments, published in 1764, as the first detailed and influential criticism of capital punishment that expressly called for its abolition.” When someone kills a human being …show more content…
The death penalty is not a way of torturing people or a way of ending other human’s lives instead it is justice for those who have been killed without knowing why maybe and even if those victims knew would be legal to end their lives but to keep those who did, that is injustice, and that is where “human rights” should head …show more content…
Putting someone in a prison means that those people who put that person in prison are taking the freedom of that person and the United States of America have been well known for its freedom to their people and others. Dezhbakhsh, Rubin and Shepherd (2003) states that “Evidence on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is important for many states that are currently reconsidering their position on the issue. We examine the deterrent hypothesis by using county-level, postmoratorium panel data and a system of simultaneous equations.”
Humans over the years have always wanted to make a better world and that is why they have made something called Laws, law is a system of a rule or rules to forbid someone from doing something and if so there are penalties. People should feel what the victim felt when they got killed, and that is the reason behind the Capital Punishment, is to make the guilty feel what the victim felt and that is justice. No one is different than the other, all human beings should be treated equally and all other living beings should be treated