Capital Punishment is better known today as the death penalty. In ancient times this was the only way to “correct” the criminally challenged. Some of the techniques used were stoning, draw and quartering and beheading. While all these methods of executions my seem barbaric it is no different then what a modern day criminal might face if convicted and sentenced with the death penalty.

The death penalty in American society today is an outrageous attempt to find fast and quick solutions to criminal behavior. Originally the death penalty was used to help deter the appeal of committing or acting in a criminal nature. However this process has felled as can be seen in Americas alarming rise in all forms of crime.

Why do so many find capital punishment acceptable, in a world where we can invade countries because we think they are under the rule of a cruel a

I believe that mandatory life in prison is a far more sutable fate then simply killing people. I believe that if people spend enough time confinded behind the walls of a prison they will eventually revert to a normal state of being.

However I believe that the execution of McVeigh was a grave mistake that America may one day have to deal with. The execution only made McVeigh a martyr to those people who might try and copy his crime. Ten or twenty years from now I have a feeling this same case will be debated and the death penalty will not be used so unresponsively.

Thanks to the death penalty courts all across America are being bogged down with case appeal after case appeal. Thanks to this method of filing appeals many death row inmates have successfully caused their execution dates to be pushed back over and over.

A second problem in applying the death penalty is that it is brought upon by a council of twelve jurors. The ideal juror is one who can stay truly neutral during the course of the trial. However more and more people relay on their emotions and seem to have already made up their mind on where they stand after only the first hearing.

One of the main problems with the death penalty is that there is no set guideline on who or what demands the use of it. It seems that now day that anyone who commits a murder intentional or accidental will have the option of the death penalty placed upon his or her head.

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