capital punishment

In the article “Yes, the Death Penalty Is Morally Permissible” by Louis P.Pojman he argues hat there are “moral reasons” to give the death penalty to 1st degree murders. He also gives two arguments, retributivist and abolitionist. The retributivist argument is everybody has to live. If a criminal kills a victim, the criminal should be punished by death. But, the abolitionist response is putting the criminal to death only “compounds evil” by having the …

…one be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process, respectively). My opinions on the articles are that they all make really good points. I think we should abolish the death penalty unless the crime is real serious. In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and the debate over Timothy Mcvieh, I think for the victims to get over what he did and put it behind them, I think he should be executed.