The death penalty, yes, a widely disagreed topic. This is the debate, whether capital death punishment is a good thing, or not. Before I tell you my opinion, let’s weigh the pros and cons.
Pros:
– It serves as a hard punishment, if you rape or kill someone, then justice is served.
– It sends a strong message across to other perpetrators, and can be a deterrent to crime.
– You save cost of housing prison inmates.
– The victim’s family can move on without fear of the perpetrator.
Cons:
– New types of evidence has cleared people, and convicted new people, however, if someone was sentenced to death, there is no way to reverse judgement.
– Morally, what right do we have over another to take their life; does this not place us in the same morality as the killer?
– You kill another family too by taking away its member, whether good or bad, that person is still a member.
What do I think now? I think it’s a good thing, but should be used with discretion. I don’t think it’s appropriate in all cases, but can be useful in deterring others. What do you think, is capital punishment a good harsh punishment, or is it too final?
– Jeeva 
Excerpt: After a relative lull in the number of executions Ohio carries out annually, it appears poised to sharply increase lethal injections in the months to come, possibly setting a state record for most in a year.The state executed condemned killer Mark Brown on Thursday, the third execution in as many months and one of nine scheduled for this year.Ohio put seven people to death in 2004, a record for the state and second in the nation behind Texas, and executed four last year. It executed two people in each of the two previous years.Brown, 37, had been sentenced to die for killing a Youngstown store owner in a 1994 shooting that mimicked a scene from the Samuel L. Jackson movie “Menace II Society.” He was pronounced dead Thursday morning from a dose of a powerful anesthetic under the state’s new injection procedure, with death coming about nine minutes after the drug began flowing.
The state recently switched from a three-drug lethal-injection process, which opponents said could cause severe pain, to the one-drug system.Though Brown had challenged the qualifications of Ohio’s executioners and alleged the procedure could cause severe pain as execution team members tried to find a vein, his death was quick and almost problem-free. Three months ago, the country had never put someone to death with just one drug. Brown’s execution was Ohio’s third use of the procedure, and in each case death came in just a few minutes. However, it did take executioners about 30 minutes to insert needles in the arm of condemned inmate Kenneth Biros in December before beginning his execution for killing a woman he met at a bar.
Full article: http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/761344
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