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Capital Punishment: Against - School Essays

Capital Punishment: Against

Capital punishment has been enforced by every government since the
dawn of time. Capital punishment was the most severe punishment that a
person could pay for committing a heinous crime against the society that
person was supposedly a part of. A person was forced to lose their life
for committing horrible acts against humanity, but how can humanity try to
justify the loss of another life rather then make this particular rogue
work for the community in which he committed this act against? Why should
it be justified for a group of people in supposedly high positions in their
respective communities to be able to judge a human being for his misdeeds?
Why are these people so well formed in ...

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Upon the verdict of guilt in
taking the other human being's life the group of peers will now have to
decide that person's fate or future. These people deciding the aggressor's
future do not have the right to take the aggressor's life for it is
unrealistic to justify one murder with another murder just for the sake of
an eye for an eye.
The ideal human would sentence this aggressive human being to a
sentence of servitude to try and repay society for the life in which he
took unjustly and so that some good may become of this tragedy. The ideal
human being would not try to take the aggressive human being's life just
for the mere fact that since the aggressive human being had murdered
someone that they should also perish. Is it more justified to perish at
the hands of many then at the hand of one?
The virtues that are lived by a justice, wholesomeness, the right
of life, and hard work. The virtue of justice because it is not just to
take one human being's life for another but ...

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Added: 10/7/2005 02:12:41 AM
Category: Legal Issues
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