Is Capital Punishment Justified?
By: shumi • Essay • 462 Words • May 14, 2011 • 1,852 Views
Is Capital Punishment Justified?
The capitak punishment
In my opinion, I am in favor of capital punishment, because it can increase the chance of saving innocent people. Life to everyone is only once. It will be unfair to see a killer still alive after he or she kills an
innocent person. Imagine that if your beloved wife got killed brutally by a criminal by no reason. Can you accept that fact that the killer is watching TV, playing basketball, or doing some other things in jail to enjoy his or her life, while your wife is laying on the grave and you are suffering the loss of your wife? Plus the criminal always has chance to get paroled as long as he or she still alive. What if a criminal did not realize the mistake he has made before and go to kill another innocent person right after he get out of jail. It will be really ironic for a homicide to kill another innocent person after his or her parole. Anyway, I do not say that capital punishment is always good; however, it is good in some instance, like executing a cruel killer. Capital punishment might have mistakes, but after getting through so much hearing and other legal processes in court, the chance of executing an innocent person will be really small. Plus most of the criminal who is in the position of having the chance of capital punishment always have committed the felonies that involved with killing, kidnapping, or raping. Somebody might say that executing murderers will not restore the life of the victim, but only achieve the death of another life. I think this is not quite true. It does bring