death penalty
Capital punishment is an extremely controversial issue in today's society. Many Americans support it and, in turn, many also appose it tremendously. Those who appose capital punishment, in general, think that the death penalty is an inhuman and unfair punishment. Their argument is supported by the fact that many criminals claim innocence up until the day of their executions. Those who support capital punishment believe that the people who are on death row and incapable of retribution and deserve the ultimate punishment for their wrong doings. The fight between the moralities of capital punishment is also used to support and oppose the view of both sides. Capital punishment is one public issue that a person is either in favor of or against-no in-between. I read two articles addressing this issue: one that opposed and one that supported. Each article gave sufficient arguments to why they believed in the form of punishment that they did. The first article entitled Tough-on-Crime governors raise capital punishment questions strictly opposed capital punishment. The author, Scott Lindlaw, made this article extremely unique by simply stating several facts that helped to fight his position of oppos
The second article, which supported capital punishment, was entitled A Christian defends Capital Punishment. This was a different view on the death penalty because, in general, it is thought that Christian peoples would normally oppose the death penalty. According to author Steven Butts "we must ask if God requires the death penalty" before it is possible to condemn or condone it. However, as this article notices, God does require capital punishment in cases of premeditated murder. God said, "Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God he made man." (Genesis 9:6). Butts claims that "the death penalty endorses the sanctity of human by opposing deliberate acts of homicide and that makes it acceptable." Those who take the life of another must forfeit their life willingly (p. 2). This is the punishment that fits the crime, so to speak. Butts claims that "those who say that retributive justice contradicts forgiveness have misunderstood biblical forgiveness." This statement is claiming that use of the death penalty is not going against God's word and taking matters into mans hands. One must understand what God meant by "forgiveness" before he can make an educated statement concerning the death penalty if their argu
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