The Punishment Of The Death Penalty
When one commits a heinous crime such as murder, he/she is put to death if only he/she has been indicted for doing so. Capital punishment was first put into action a long time ago; in fact, dating back to “Hammurabi’s Code and the Old Testament of the bible and was practice in both ancient Greece and Rome. It was also used extensively in English and American colonial history for a wide variety of crimes, including murder, theft, and witchcraft.” The death penalty has also been considered questionable and considered an ethical dilemma. More recently, “capital punishment was considered unconstitutional and was abolished in the Furman v. Georgia case in 1972, which caused executions to cease for about five years. Executions were shortly reinstated in the 1976 case Gregg v. Georgia” (Vile). Capital punishment today is a necessary punishment in an age of violence with murderers and terrorists, as a society must rightfully protect itself from even the most vehement criminals. Capital punishment provides a deterrent for murders, provides justice for the victims and their families, and is cheaper than to keep a criminal in prison for the rest of their