Death Penalty
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Death Penalty
The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. For generations the death penalty has been around. Of course over the years, it has gotten more ‘sophisticated” in certain countries, but they all root back to the same thing; death for a crime. The name capital punishment is actually rooted back to the latin term capitalis, literally "regarding the head". Which can prove that one version of punishment was decapitation. The death penalty has been practiced in almost every society around the world. Yet currently in only 58 nations, is it actively practiced, About 95 countries have prohibited the use of the death penalty, while others still allow it yet only use it during certain circumstances.
Before watching the movie(s) in class regarding death penalty, I always had mixed feelings of it. One side of me believes an “eye for an eye”. If you kill or completely torment a person I care for, I’m going to want you dead. I would want the person that committed the crime to be vanished from the world. At the same time I would want them to rot in jail and suffer for the rest of their life. Yet, housing an inmate cost tax payers lots of money. Since it does cost a lot of money to house a criminal, it goes back to why I would not mind the death penalty; saves me future money.
Now here come my contradicting feelings. Killing a person for a crime is not really setting any example, but rather going to the same level as the criminal. By killing the person who did you/your loved one wrong, all you’re doing is getting revenge. You are not getting that person back or taking back the action the criminal has committed. All it is is a selfish satisfaction. A solution that makes one feel good temporarily, but if you think of it the pain will forever remain. In the movie True Crime, an innocent man was...
The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. For generations the death penalty has been around. Of course over the years, it has gotten more ‘sophisticated” in certain countries, but they all root back to the same thing; death for a crime. The name capital punishment is actually rooted back to the latin term capitalis, literally "regarding the head". Which can prove that one version of punishment was decapitation. The death penalty has been practiced in almost every society around the world. Yet currently in only 58 nations, is it actively practiced, About 95 countries have prohibited the use of the death penalty, while others still allow it yet only use it during certain circumstances.
Before watching the movie(s) in class regarding death penalty, I always had mixed feelings of it. One side of me believes an “eye for an eye”. If you kill or completely torment a person I care for, I’m going to want you dead. I would want the person that committed the crime to be vanished from the world. At the same time I would want them to rot in jail and suffer for the rest of their life. Yet, housing an inmate cost tax payers lots of money. Since it does cost a lot of money to house a criminal, it goes back to why I would not mind the death penalty; saves me future money.
Now here come my contradicting feelings. Killing a person for a crime is not really setting any example, but rather going to the same level as the criminal. By killing the person who did you/your loved one wrong, all you’re doing is getting revenge. You are not getting that person back or taking back the action the criminal has committed. All it is is a selfish satisfaction. A solution that makes one feel good temporarily, but if you think of it the pain will forever remain. In the movie True Crime, an innocent man was...