The Death Penelty:An Argument On The Ideals Of A Soiety

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Imagine a person who in his right mind decides to kill and rape a little ten year old girl who plays in the park every day. The man grabs the girl off the swing, throws her in the back of a truck and proceeds to bring her to his house where he rapes her repeatedly. Then he slowly kills her by cutting her from her jugular to her pubic bone. In addition he wraps the body up in a bed sheet and buries her in a field by his house in an attempt to cover up his crime. Now imagine this man being brought to jail and being sentenced to death. The problem is that he is released because the officer forgot to read him his rights.
The death penalty is a punishment by which a criminal is put to death because of a crime. It is a highly debatable subject, which has many people being either for or against it. The reason that some people think that capital punishment is wrong is because “there is an inherent worth in all human beings”, (Devine 229-243), and we should try to reform them allowing them productive members of society. Also, the thought that applying the death penalty will not stop future crimes from happening. Many people who do not support the death penalty believe that an error in judgment can be made in the penal system where an innocent person is wrongly accused and sentenced to death. Many people think that the death penalty is a cruel, immoral, and unjust way for society to somehow get revenge on the killer. Capital punishment is not morally wrong. It is a just, fair penalty delegated through a process of which all people, guilty or not, are held accountable to.
One reason an intellectual society like ours can choose to apply the death penalty without regret is that most Americans would agree we are a civil democratic state. * “Not every civil state can rightfully take the life of those who commit murder. We are able because we understand liberty, equality, and independence”. (Sorell 27-35) (* Meaning that we can pursue hap...