Capital Punishment

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Christina Wong, Chi San

Argumentative and Persuasive

19th November, 2007

Capital Punishment, is it necessary?

Is it right to take the lives of the ones that have taken the lives of other people? Over the past few years, this has been a question asked repeatedly and is a much debated topic. However, capital punishment has never been proved right or wrong. But how can we say that killing is wrong if we sanction killing criminals? What is the difference between killing in an illegal way and killing legally?

        

As we stepped into the 21st century, our modern society had encouraged model roles being posed to educate our future generation. If we start killing criminals just because they have committed a crime, then are we encouraging our next generation to kill for what they think is wrong?  “An eye of an eye leaves everyone blind”.  Shouldn’t we encourage them to solve the problems with a more non-violent way than of teaching them to take the easy way out and just turn a blind eye to the problem? We should teach them the value of rehabilitation, and that everyone makes mistakes. We should learn how to forgive others.

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Capital punishment costs more than life without parole. Studies in the US show that capital cases, from arrest to execution, cost between $1 million and $7 million, however a case resulting in life imprisonment costs around $500,000. Shouldn’t we use a better way to use our money than to waste it on issues that does not have a beneficial side? 

There is no such thing as a humane method of putting a person to death; every form of execution causes the prisoners to suffer. We should respect the criminals as humans and punish them with methods other than ...

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