Category: Capital Punishment

Martin Luther King, Jr once said, An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. So why does the Death Penalty exist? According to CNN, since Capital Punishment was reinstated in the US in 1976, over 1500 people have been executed. This number is substantial, and yet, many citizens arent informed about its risks…

Capital punishment is a very cruel and unusual punishment used to be justified as humane. When speaking of cruel and unusual punishment the death penalty ties within this saying as far as how these actions are carried out. The death penalty is a very cruel type of punishment in its self. The definition of cruel…

Presumably Italy is a country wrought with problems, corruption, division and a struggling economy, however Italy is no doubt unified when it comes to upholding human rights. And this includes the human right to live without the threat of state sanctioned murder. Italy expresses firm opposition and wishes complete abolition of the Death penalty. The…

While delivering his final judgement as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice Kurian Joseph recently chose to disagree with his fellow judges and speak against the purpose and practice of capital punishment. He observed that death penalty has failed to achieve any constitutionally valid penological goals and that it was being arbitrarily…

As former president of the United States of America, George W. Bush once stated, I support the death penalty because I believe if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives. To some the death penalty is the only just thing that will teach criminals…

The debate over capital punishment has affected millions of lives throughout all history and will affect many more in the coming future. Even though the severity of the crime should match the punishment, some argue that capital punishment is a cruel and unusual punishment; therefore, ruling it out as an available punishment all-together. The issue…

Capital punishment is a conclusive or ultimate discipline. There is no harsher discipline than death itself. Our country, the US of America, is one of the fifty-eight countries that training capital punishment. As of now the US will just utilize capital punishment, on the off chance that one submits first-degree murder. People that have confidence…

The debate over capital punishment argues, does the state have the right to pick and choose the people that carry out who get carry out execution for, how do they justify a crime too heinous to prove that the offender needs to be put to death. One side of the argument states that the government…

Why is it that we believe that only by taking away a life we can pay for another life? Executing lawbreakers to simply dissuade others from mirroring their behaviour is just a cruel application of this utilitarian logic. The same logic can be thought of to justify killing one healthy person and harvesting their organs…

It is said that death is certain, its hour is uncertain, but when capital punishment is in place, a prisoner on death rows hour is known. Could you knowingly assist in another humans death? As nurses, we are trained to save lives, not take them. Currently, according to the website belonging to World Population Review,…