Capital Punishment

Title	Capital Punishment
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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

    The Debate over the merits of capital punishment has endured for years, and
continues to be an extremely indecisive and complicated issue. Adversaries of
capital punishment point to the Marshalls and the Millgards, while proponents
point to the Dahmers and Gacys. Society must be kept safe from the monstrous
barbaric acts of these individuals and other killers, by taking away their lives
to function and perform in our society. At the same time, we must insure that
innocent people such as Marshall and Millgard are never convicted or sentenced
to death for a crime that they did not commit.
     Many contend that the use of capital punishment as a form of deterrence
does not work, as there are no fewer murders on a per-capita basis in countries
or states that do have it, then those that do not. In order for capital
punishment to work as a deterrence, certain events must be present in the
criminal's mind prior to committing the offence. The criminal must be aware that
others have been punished in the past for the offence that he or she is planning,
and that what happened to another individual who committed this offence, can
also happen to me.
     But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to
1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions.
Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a
personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they
will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by
friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught
some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit as
to what they can do, until they have learned it themselves. Therefore, capital
punishment will never truly work as a deterrent, because of human nature to
ignore practised advice and to self learn.
     There are those who claim that capital punishment is in itself a form of
vengeance on the killer. But isn't locking up a human being behind steel bars
for many years, vengeance itself? And ...

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