While analyzing all of the articles that we have received in class, one in particular captured my interest. It was article # 14 entitled, "Dead Wrong." This article best represents my viewpoint on the topic of capital punishment. It states that at least two thirds of Americans favor a suspension of the death penalty for reasons of fairness and money. Along with those two thirds of Americans, I too favor the suspension of the death penalty. I feel that it is a denial of human rights and also increases people's tendency toward violence. Two wrongs do not make a right. If we can say that killing a person is legally wrong, how can we support a system that does justify capital punishment.

The use of capital punishment has been a permanent fixture in society since the earliest civilizations, and continues to be used as a form of punishment in countries today. It has been used for various crimes ranging from the abandonment of soldiers during wartime to the more dreadful crimes of serial killers. However, the mere fact that this brutal form of punishment and revenge has been the policy of many nations in the past, does not consequently justify its implementation in today

In addition the cost of executing a person in the United States is far higher than the cost of imprisoning him or her for life. States wishing to condemn cruel and inhuman acts of killing do not serve their purpose of repeating the act of killing. The average homicide rates in the 13 states without the death penalty is lower than the average homicide rate in the 37 states were it is legal. Capital punishment is pre-meditated killing, and like all killing, involves a cruel and violent assault on the human body. If administering 100 volts of electricity to the most sensitive parts of a man's body is rightly condemned as torture, how does a state condone the administration of 2,000 volts to a human body in order to cause death? The answer is that the state should not condone it.

's society. The death penalty is morally and socially unethical, and should be interpreted as cruel and unusual punishment since it has no proof of acting as a deterrent, and risks the atrocious and unacceptable injustice of executing innocent people. As long as capital punishment exists in our society it will continue to spark the injustice, which it has failed to reduce. Capital Punishment is immoral and unethical. It does not matter who does the killing because when a life is taken by another, it is always wrong. By killing a human being the state lessens the value of life and actually contributes to the growing attitude in today's society that certain individuals are worth more than others. When the value of life is lessened

Some common words found in the essay are:
Judaism Christianity, Capital Punishment, Dead Wrong, capital punishment, Human Rights, death penalty, thirds americans favor, favor suspension death, support death penalty, debate capital punishment, americans favor suspension, thirds americans, human body, innocent people, average homicide, value life, favor suspension, americans favor, suspension death,
Approximate Word count = 1024
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)