All over the world people are committing crimes. Some as small as petty theft, others kidnapping, raping and even murdering. Around the world, different countries have different rules regarding the punishment given to people who break the rules. In ancient Europe, there where hundreds of rules and if any of them were broken, the person could be punished by death. Here in the United States, capital punishment or "The Death Penalty", has been used for over 200 years. But is it right? Capital punishment is unconstitutional and should not be restored to stop crime.
Unfortunately, the death penalty has been used all over the world for thousands and thousands of years. But that doesn't mean it still has to be used today. We as a country, and even as a world, are far more civilized than we have been before. We as people should be able to realize that killing a killer doesn't makes us any better off than the killer himself. Who gives us the right to justify if a man lives or dies? No one doesn't and that is why it is illegal to kill or commit other terrible crimes. So by giving a death sentence we are committing the same crime that we have just prosecuted a man for. .
"The death penalty is the harshest punishment. It is irrevocable: It ends the existence of those punished, instead of temporarily imprisoning them" (Drehle p.242). In our world we see the beauty and also unfortunately the ugly and it's how we justify the punishments for these ugly and horrible happenings that makes us different from other countries. All over the world punishments for crimes differ from border to border. Stealing in one country could cause the perpetrator to loose a finger or a hand, but in most countries serious crimes are punishable by death and it needs to stop.
Unfortunately, as the year go by, crime rates are steadily increasing. State and federal prisons are filling up quickly and the death penalty can free up space in these penitentiaries.
