Since the beginning of time, people have been committing murders and vicious acts against one another. In the earlier times, the acts that were committed; were counter reacted with the same crime done to that person. For instance, if one killed someone they in return would be killed. The death penalty today is used for only severe crimes against humanity. An example of a severe crime against humanity is the Oklahoma City bombings. The death penalty is viewed as strange and unknown land that people would like to explore. “Thanks to the decision of a California district judge last week, the American public has been spared the spectacle of criminals being executed on television”, said Jacob Weisberg in the article This is Your death( Weisberg 9). As regards to the death penalty today it is viewed as cruel punishment, why is the United States the only democracy to have it, kills innocent, and cheapens the value of human life. In my opinion the death penalty is exactly what you make of it. If someone kills someone in my opinion them, themselves should have the same fate.
The death penalty is viewed by millions of people as cruel and unusual punishment. As stated by Edward I. Koch in Death and Justice, the death penalty is “barbaric” (Koch 905). Capital punishment is the intentional taking of one’s life because they have committed a heinous crime against society. The death penalty today is not viewed as “barbaric” because of the way that capital punishment is carried out. Today, the most humane form of capital punishment used is lethal injection. Less humane types of capital punishment methods are the electric chair and the gas chamber. Koch states that life is precious (904). Each person has the right to live, and that right should not be taking by any one person. When a life is taken people draw curious about the incident. The death penalty is a curiosity of modern