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Captial Punishment Debate

Capital Punishment is the penalty of death for the commission of a crime. This is putting a condemned person to death. Capital punishment an inhumane punishment that should be abolished. The United States is the only place by memory I know still have the Execution Penalty. I think the U.S. justice system is corrupt because of this. What do they think capital punishment will do?

Capital punishment does not deter crime. Opponents of capital punishment say the death penalty is not necessary. However, deterrence is not the question when you are looking at the retributive value of capital punishment. Deterrence can only work if the threat of punishment is combined with the conviction that the forbidden acts are not only illegal and therefore punishable but immoral.

Some people think that human life has no value whatsoever. To that section of the population nothing will hold deterrent value. These people do not think about the consequences of their actions. Lack of anticipation an...

Posted by: Carlos Hernandez

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