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Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right? - Online Term Paper

Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right?

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The question of whether capital punishment is right or wrong is a truly
tough choice to make. Capital punishment (death penalty) is legal because the
government of the United States of America says that it is all right to execute
another human being if their crimes are not punishable by other means. There
are many different forms of capital punishment. Some of the most popular ones
have been hanging, firing squad, electrocution (the chair), the gas chamber, and
the newest lethal injection. In the readings of George Orwell, Edward I. Koch,
and Jacob Weisberg, there are incites to capital punishment that are not usually
thought of or expressed aloud. Also in the movie "Dead Man ...

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death penalty. Orwell writes "It is curious; but till that
moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man.
When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the
unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This
man was not dying, he was alive just as we are alive." In this quote Orwell
brings out the emotion of knowing that what is being executed may seem like a
monster, but the fact remains that the prisoner is still a human being. Orwell
also brings out the point that when we were a society that conducted hangings,
the executioner would put a bag over the prisoners head. This was basically to
make it so we didn't have to watch the facial expressions of the dying because
it would make society feel guilty.
Another writer against capital punishment is Jacob Weisberg. In
Weisburg's "This Is Your Death," the reader must take into account that most of
the public is immune to seeing violence on the TV ...

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Added: 9/22/2008 11:33:53 AM
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