The Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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The death penalty has been around for many of years. The first know record of people using the death penalty was in ancient Babylonia in 1700 BC. People that where given the death penalty in 1700 BC had to committed only one of the 25 crimes that were punishable by death. These crimes could be from cheating on your wife or husband to helping slaves escape1. As years went by, the number of crimes that are punishable by the death penalty have increase and the methods of execution has changed too.
The methods of execution are very different from the ones people used back then. Today the methods like lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad, and hanging are used in many states as execution, or come states don 't have the death …show more content…

They believe that the death penalty is not a punishment at all. They believe by putting someone to does not teach them that what they did is wrong, people that committed a crime should be put in jail to learn what they did is wrong. They also say that the death penalty is not doing the job it is meant to be doing. The reason we have the death penalty is to deter people from killing others and they say that the death penalty is not stopping people from killing others. Pro-life followers believe that life in prison without parole is a better warning than …show more content…

I feel that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment, but it depends on the crime. Take the crime of Richard Ramirez or also called "The Night Stalker". Richard Ramirez kill 13 men and women, he shoot, stab, and strangled all 13 of his victims, many also think that he killed a nine-year-old boy.8 This kind of person, in my mind, should be executed because killing 13 people with no reason is wrong. However, say if someone was to kill one to five people, that person should be put in jail for life with no parole. This allows this person to deal with the guilt of what they did for the rest of their life. I feel that this would teach people that what you do is wrong no matter how you do it or how many people you

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