The first wrong committed by the wrongdoer and the second wrong being committed by the law in killing the individual through execution. In my religion, Baptist Christian, it is thought to be wrong in killing others as a form of justified punishment. There are different ways of punishing, but the wrong way is through execution.

An individual who is for the death penalty may say, "Yea, what if the wrongdoer killed your family, wouldn't you want to kill the person who did it?" My answer would be yes because I would w

There was a period between 1972-1976 where the death penalty was ruled by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional under the eighth amendment. The decision was reversed when new methods, which were not as cruel, were introduced in 1976. But no matter how a person is killed or how long it takes it is still cruel to take that individual's right of living from them. No one has the power to do that except God.(explain more about why God only has the power)

The cost to keep convicted prisoners on death row also takes huge amounts of money out of our taxes. It is a very long and grueling process, and may take many years to actually put the prisoner to death. Due to all of the appeals and going in and out of court, money is wasted, which would not occur if we just got rid of the death sentence. It also makes our society look more brutal to outsiders looking in with our attempts of obtaining justice.

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On the other hand, think about the murderer's family and everyone who he is connected to. How are they going to feel even when they find out he killed someone? And worse of all h

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