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Capital Punishment Persuasive Essay

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Capital Punishment – A Potentially, but Unfortunately Optimal Choice

The death penalty is an extremely controversial topic, strongly because of the morals oriented around our country’s roots. America had the impulsive motivation to free ourselves of oppression. Many of the “utopian” ideals involving freedom were exaggerated, leaving us with the American stereotype in which there was a “freedom-blanket” thrown over the entire country. This past still distorts our view of right and wrong to this day as we idolize a dream founded out of impulse purely due to patriotism. There are three logical ideologies behind the validity of capital punishment that bring clarity to morality. Those of which being: without extreme influences of bias it is extremely hard to claim that no one ever deserved death, mercy’s reach can only change a small amount of people, and a conclusive end to someone’s life can often (but unfortunately) bring benefit to society. Some individuals like Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam …show more content…

It may be important to open with a small side note: talking about the benefits of murdering people sound’s horrible and has developed terrible connotations. However, realistically, it is easy to conclude that the world could benefit from not having seen Adolf Hitler beyond the age of twelve, whether it ended up having to know it, or thinking it murdered an innocent child. That aside, the cost of grace is the allowance of suffering. In theory, the amount of opportunities for redemption we allow correlate directly with the amount of opportunities for more murder, wrong doings, and wasting of resources. At the point where someone is too dangerous and held in too much contempt to be given any sort of chance at redemption is the point in which they need to be strongly considered for capital punishment, as it is a waste of time, money, and life for them to continue growing old in prison

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