The penalty of death could be recorded to be as old as the eighteenth century with Hammurabi’s code in the Babylon; most famously known as “an eye for an eye”, the code was used to bring justice to up to 25 forms of crimes. However, Hammurabi’s code of justice was not the only to have existed in the era before Christ that included crimes punishable by death. The death sentence, under a variety of codes and laws, included beatings to death, crucifixion, burning alive, impalement, and drowning. Hanging, later introduced, as a common practice in the era after Christ in Britain. With such inhumane practices to be later introduced to more humane practices, we still question the fairness and humanness of the penalty today.
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What does the rape and tearing of a innocent victim’s life mean to society if her assaulter isn’t given proper punishment? A “get away” card that practically screams no jail time and ultimately showing to the public that there are no actual consequences to the abuser and no justice to the victim.
A proper solution to both the rise in criminal offences, to overcrowding in prison, and especially relief to prison budget by not only implementing a death penalty to the remaining 19 state but to as well implement more practices to set an example to the people. How? We simply look back to our predecessor’s form of death penalty, because why should we give criminals the comfort of a “humane” death when their actions were not as humane.
The more inhumane the crime the more inhumane we execute the penalty of death. Rape could be mutilation, preferably where the sun does not shine, any form of abuse in whatever form could be beating to death, possibly done by both victim and family of victim, murder could be carried out in a variety on ways from hanging, to electrocution, maybe even gasing. That’s just to name a few ways to carry out fair justice to horrid