Anyone who commits murder should be executed.

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RE: Anyone Who Commits Murder Should Be Executed

The most severe form of punishment within certain laws is death. This is called the death penalty or capital punishment and is the most severe form of corporal punishment, requiring law enforcement officers to actually kill the offender. Somebody harms those who have harmed them, but should somebody else have the right to kill to seek retaliation? We have a certain right in our own lives, but should the lives of others belong to us as well? If a court finds someone guilty of murder, it can sentence the convicted person to death. This makes people as a society murderers themselvesselves, but is there any possibility in justifying these acts? Are those who support the death penalty, just as bad? Is the death penalty a cruel punishment or is it fair? With today's increase in crime and violence in society, the death penalty effects many people within a country, whether interested or not, and has existed for quite some time now in America, Africa and India.

The use of the death penalty has actually decreased throughout the industrial Western World since the 19th century, with Britain, France and Spain