Report On Capital Punishment

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In his report "Capital Punishment", the author Tom Guilmette, describes how death penalty has many disadvantages as a method of punishment and justice satisfaction, but is still a necessity for our society. It is defined with the word "capital", because it is the worst, and most severe of all the punishments. Unlike in the past, capital punishment in today's society is usually linked to capital crimes, such as attempted murders, or felony murders. During its long history death sentence, sometimes preceded by torture, was commonly used to punish law offenders for various crimes even small thefts, and robberies.

Death Penalty is the only corporal sort of punishment still active in modern society law. During the last century certain ways were found for the execution method to be as less painful as possible. Ways of execution in the past were very cruel such as: crucifixion, boiling in oil, beheading, burning alive, tearing apart, and similar. Today's methods are more human like: lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, and less used hanging and firing squad. In today's society death -row convicts' only alternative to capital punishment is a life sentence, as a second most severe punishment.

However, he also calls for fair treatment for everyone and certain restrictions in use of death sentence as a method of punishment. Some people do not value death penalty as a deterrent for criminal. They just speak of it as a people's will, like Lord Denning of Supreme Court Of England: "Punishment is the way in which society expresses its denunciation of wrong doing; and, in order to maintain respect for the law, it is essential that the punishment inflicted for grave crimes should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by the great majority of citizens for them. It is a mistake to consider the objects of punishments as being a deterrent or reformative or preventive and nothing else... The truth is that some crimes are so outrageous that society insists on adequate punishment, because the wrong doer deserves it, irrespective of whether it is a deterrent or not" (Historic Traveler Magazine 36).

Moral integrity of death penalty is also being questioned, but its supporters recall Bible's verses to approve it. In Bible God states: "Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed" (Genesis 9:6) . Also, in the time when God was giving His law to Moses and His people, He said, "He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death" (Exodus 21:12). "Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death" (Numbers 35:31).

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