Capital Punishment

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higher level of thinking. Why should we bring ourselves to the level of thinking that was used almost two hundred years ago? The executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that

"…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes…We could execute all three thousand people on death row, and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow."(Frame 51)

During the Late 1700’s and through the mid 1800’s King Louis XVI used the guillotine as a new way of Capital Punishment. He looked at the guillotine as a way to get rid of people who committed crimes of stealing, murder, and even those who went against his ideas. The way the guillotine operated was they laid the person on a board on their stomachs and put their head through an opening where they would drop what looked like a huge razor blade on the person's head and cut it off. Some called it ...

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of Robert Harris by the state of California on April 21,1992, and similar reports of witnesses to hangings and lethal injections should leave doubt that the dying process can be- and often is-grossly inhumane, regardless of method."(Flanders 16).

Society today doesn’t celebrate Capital Punishment as society did during the French Revolution, but according to an article written by Richard Warsnop, entitled "Death penalty debate centers on Retribution," 80% of the United States supports Capital Punishment. Eighty percent of the people we see everyday believes in an "eye for an eye." This eighty percent of our population would vote for a murderer to be killed even with all of the ...

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