Capital Punishment: Needless Inhumanity

There have been many debates on whether capital punishment should be allowed. However, many people feel that capital punishment is unnecessary as they believe that killing a person is absolutely wrong, even if that person is a serial killer, rapist, or anyone who has committed a serious crime. Some of the reasons why capital punishment is that it is inhumane, wrongful sentencing, and not deterring crime. First of all, capital punishment means, of course, the death sentence. No matter what crime the someone commits, killing should never happen. As the Bible states in Exodus 21:24, “an eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot”. We should never fight fire with fire, and use violence with violence. Many of the methods of capital punishment are terrifying and cruel, such as stoning. As its own name states, stoning involves getting hit by stones until death. Another reason why we shouldn’t allow the death penalty is that there are times when an innocent person is sentenced to death. Take the case of Saint Nicholas for instance. If Saint Nicholas wasn’t at the killing grounds, three innocent people would have been executed cruelly. Other cases of wrongful execution include Sergeant James McNicol, Edith Thompson, and Frederick Bywaters. All of these people would not have died if the judges had not made a mistake in finding these innocents guilty. One of the main reasons why capital punishment exists is to decrease the amount of criminals in society. However, in many countries that allow capital punishment, there are more criminals than in countries where capital punishment is banned. For example, the crime rate in United States is higher than Canada, where capital punishment has never existed. As you can see, capital punishment does not only shed the blood of guilty criminals, but it also takes away the lives of many innocent people. At first look, capital punishment seems like an easy and cheap way to get rid of many