Capital Punishment
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Murder is wrong. Life is the ultimate thing you can take away from a person, because you can never give it back. But though taking lives is not accepted, a few people still do it. The world has argued for a long time whether murderers should be locked up or executed. Many people feel that capital punishment is a good way of creating justice for both the victim and the victimizer. Though I feel that executing murderers has a few positive effects, the negative effects outweigh the positive. With this essay, I will show how I reached that opinion.
Assume that a person, whom I will call Erik, recently has been caught for raping and murdering a young woman. The police catch Erik right after the act, and he is put in prison. The evidence appears strong to the jury, because the action was caught on tape...