Who Do We Think We Are?

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Term Paper Title	Who Do We Think We Are?
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Who Do We Think We Are?

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Who Do We Think We Are?

     Capital Punishment is the penalty of death for a crime. The most common criminals

who are executed are convicted murderers. What message is that sending? The use of

capital punishment sends the message that murder is okay, as long as it is applied to the

right person. The application of capital punishment in our society is hypocritical. It has no

place in the judicial system.

     The way we handle the punishment of capital crimes is pathetic! There are other

ways to punish criminals outside of taking their lives, but we, for some reason, feel the

need to play the exterminator. The people who commit capital crimes are not animals to

be exterminated. They are human. They deserve the same breath that everyone else takes.

If a person commits a heinous crime then that person is obviously not normal. That person

is obviously in need of mental help and, we should help these criminals instead of hurting

them (religioustolerance.org).

     Criminals have families and friends who care about them. Why should the innocent

bystanders be punished because of another's actions? Killing anyone, for any reason, only

brings on more pain and suffering than is necessary. We should recognize the problems in

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our society and heal those problems instead of placing a temporary fix on a permanent

problem.

     Capital punishment is excessive and unnecessary. Killing a criminal only solves one

problem and causes many more. The one problem it solves is the criminal is no longer

walking the streets. Encarceration would serve the same purpose. If the criminal is

encarcerated then he/she no longer poses a direct threat to society, so killing him/her

would be overkill (pardon the pun). It causes other problems because the criminal was

executed merely out of retribution. Sort of an eye for an eye. Actions like this only keep

hatred and condemnation flowing in society (progress.org).

     A punishment can only be called a deterrent if it is performed consistantly and

promptly. There are three reasons why capital punishment cannot be performed with any

consistancy or promptness.

1) The number of convicted murderers sentenced to death are small, and of that number,

an even smaller number are actually executed

2)Manditory death sentences are unconstitutional (Woodson v. N...

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