Capital Punishment as A Controversial Issue Capital punishment is a legal procedure whereby an individual is executed by the state for the crimes he/she has committed. Even though this sentence has been adopted by many governments, capital punishment has remained a controversial issue around the globe. Capital punishment is mainly used for the punishment of atrocious and heinous crimes, particularly murder. In addition, death penalty as it is also known is also used on crimes against humanity, espionage, reason, and crimes against the state. Many states and interest groups have mixed reactions and views on capital punishment depending on their country and their faith. In my view, I do not support capital punishment because, I strongly believe …show more content…
In addition, anyone who kills deserves to die too so as to have a test of their own cruelty. Moreover, they argue that, capital punishment will help to get rid of repeat murders and also to prevent foreseeable killings or massacre. However, there are many studies done on capital punishment, and none has proven with numbers that executing criminals helps deter crimes (Garland 134). Furthermore there is no justification at all, as to why a crime should be paid with another crime. The main purpose of a punishment is to change the criminals, but capital punishment does not do that. When criminals are executed, they are taught nothing because they are no more, but if they are incarcerated, they will learn from their mistakes. Therefore, capital punishment should be abolished since; it does not change criminals because their lives are put to an end. In addition, capital punishment does not deter crime because most of the states where this punishment is legalized, crime is being reported on a higher rates (Parks 79). Therefore, capital punishment should be put to an end and the states should come up with a different way to punish those who commit crimes other than arguing that it helps reduce crime while innocent lives are being lost at the same time people being denied their right to life. It should be noted that, here are other ways of punishing these criminals and deterrence other than putting their lives to an