Capital Punishment Is Murder

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is a murder, there are no two ways to look at it. When one human loses their life due entirely to another human, what would it be called beyond murder? Capital Punishment does just that.
These people that are on death row in the United States are criminals. There is no disputing that fact. They have been tried an convicted. It is not what they have done that is up for discussion so much as how they are to be punished. The way that these criminals are executed is morally incorrect. There is actually a choice on how the convicted criminal is to be put to death. He, or even she, can chose anything from hanging, to being shot or electrocuted, or to lethal injection although each individual has a preferred method of execution.(King 26) These executions are jokes. They turn into giant rallies where activists and protesters thrive These executions themselves are also barbaric and inhumane. In some states they actually allow the families of the one to be killed to watch! ...

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town to see the man hanging on main street."(Smith)

If you were to look up the word "death" as in "death penalty," you would find that somewhere in it's definition, the dictionary will mention something about the "end of life" or something near that. One could go on and on straying from the point about life's virtues and how dear life should be to us, or discuss the human's desire to live, but I won't. We know that human's have this strong desire to live based on the results of a statistic published in Time Magazine, November 1996, that showed that the suicide rate is extremely low. People want to live. If there were no desire as a human race to live, the rate of suicide and ...

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