Capital Punishment Is Wrong Essay

Capital Punishment Capital punishment is an issue that has been used to handle severe crimes in nearly every country either now or in the past. Even though I understand both sides of capital punishment, I can not morally say that it's good. Though many say that the death penalty is the only way to go , it can not be justified because it is not morally correct to punish people with death. I have to take away how i feel and base my opinion on my morals. I do not think it is humane to use the death penalty as a form of punishment. It goes against what i think of as being morally right. Killing someone to teach people that killing is wrong does not work, It's hypocritical. In the article by Mary E. Williams she makes a very good point. “To this cycle of retributive vengeance there is no end. In the words of Mohandas Gandhi, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world
In the book by Jeff Jacoby he presents evidence to support his claims. “Obviously, murder and the rate at which it occurs are affected by more than just the presence or absence of the death penalty. But even after taking that caveat into account, it seems irrefutably clear that when murderers are executed, innocent lives are saved”(Jacoby). This is not the only argument for capital punishment. Some others might argue that “the death penalty is not a form of punishment that may never be imposed, regardless of the circumstances of the offense, regardless of the procedure followed in reaching the decision to impose it. Further-more, the infliction of death as a punishment for murder is not without justification, thus is not unconstitutionally severe”(Weier). which makes sense. Though if we are to look at how the world has gone in circles and history repeat itself over and over we should learn. We know that revenge is not right and that it doesn't fix anything but that's practically what the death penalty