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"Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime
feel as indignant as those who are."

    No moratorium of the death penalty is needed. For many crimes that are committed, a life sentence is not punishment enough for the harm and suffering the family of the victims have been caused. Economically, the death penalty relieves the government of having to produce funds for the criminals, therefore relieving us as the people because the funds are coming from our tax money.

    Although the death penalty should be kept in use, there are many different methods that are inhumane. Such methods are the gas chamber, electrocution, the firing squad, the guillotine, hanging, and beheading. Some of the listed above are not in use regularly but they have been used as back-up. These methods should be done away with because they cause the inmate much pain. Lethal injection is the easiest way because the inmate is put to sleep before hand and then they are given an injection of a poison. So basically, they just fall asleep and that is the end. With the other ways, there is too much risk that something will go wrong and the inmate will suffer much more than he has to.
                                                                 Source:  Methods

    From the christian point of view, there are many quotes from the Bible which refer to capital punishment.

                               "Eye for Eye, tooth for tooth."
                                                    (New American Bible, Leviticus 24:20)

            "Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death."
                                                    (New American Bible, Leviticus 24:17).

Death penalty was mentioned in the Code of Hammurabi, which was written in the time of Constantine. The death penalty was used for every offense in the Draconian Code of Greece and was imposed upon criminals in Biblical times.  The death penalty has lasted the test of time.
                                                                 Source: Biblical Reference

    Lastly, many anti-death penalty supporters claim that capital punishment is racist. There are statistics that they have found that point out that the death penalty is racist. But there is also proof that it is not. It completely depends on what side of the fence you are on because anyone can find information to defend or accuse capital punishment.
 
 
 

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