Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

by Harry Chae

As of January 1, 2013, 1320 murderers have been executed in the united states (http://www.clark.prosecutor.org). Capital punishment is the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. Although capital punishment still exists, capital punishment should be banned because people make mistakes, two wrongs do not make a right, and the executions are very painful.

A lot of people kill by mistakes. It would not be wise to just execute murderers without hearing the details. Taking someone’s life is very serious. For example, long time ago people did a small mistakes and people killed them. Also, sometimes they killed just because of their looks. Even  because people fear the person. Just executing someone because they did something wrong is not a choice of wisdom.Capital punishment must be banned because people make mistakes.

Two wrongs do not make aright. Even though they execute murderers that does not make the victim come to life again. Gandhi said an eye to an eye just leaves the whole world blind. Just because someone killed a person does not mean we must kill him back. If we execute them, then we are as bad as the killer. Capital punishment must be banned because two wrongs never make a right.

The methods are very painful and violent. In olden days, they used to all kinds of tools to execute including animals. Almost all of them tortured these convicted to the suffered a short and very painful death.If we execute painfully, that makes us the worse ones because the killer might not have killed as painfully as we did. Capital punishment must be banned because the methods of executions are very painful.

Capital punishment is stopping the development of the world and everybody and also bad for people who consider human rights very important. Capital punishment must be banned because people make mistakes, two wrong never make a right, and the methods of execution is very painful.