Capital Punishment

Capital punishment has existed all throughout the history of mankind and has existed long before the creation of court systems. As civilizations progressed, they incorporated capital punishment into their legal codes. One of the first examples of the establishment of capital punishment into the justice system was Hammurabi’s Code. Hammurabi was king of Babylonia around 1750 BC. He came up with the idea of an “eye for an eye”. Passages from the Bible further encouraged …

…of the death penalty. The use of capital punishment shows the value that we as a society place on human life by exacting the most severe penalty we can on murderers. With the ever changing and overflowing penal systems, many convicted murderers might soon be able to walk the streets again. Society will suffer needlessly if we do not use capital punishment to permanently remove murderers who place no value on the sanctity of life.