Capital Punishment

Does An Eye For An Eye Still Have A Place In Society? Purpose: To persuade the audience that Capital Punishment has a place in today's society. General Objective: Persuasive Intro: Imagine that someone kidnapped your child and then killed them. What would you want to do to that person? Most would answer kill them. In fact in 2000, 58% of the population agreed that if someone was convicted of murdering a child then they should be put …

…occur. These acts must be punished and justice must be served and sometimes the only true justice is the death of the murderer. In ancient times, they upheld the law, an eye for an eye. Due to the fact that in our country we still kill our fellow man this law still has a place in the judicial system. There is one indisputable fact: Once a killer is executed then he can never kill again.