Capital Punishment

"Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law". Almost every culture through out history has relied on the death penalty and justified it as necessary tool to maintain order. The United States is the only Western industrialized nation where executions still take place. The USA is one of the 90 countries with the death penalty. The death penalty is imposed in 38 states and for certain federal crimes. There is …

…an already morally challenged society. Capital punishment lowers the value of human life as seen by the general population and brutalizes society. It is based on revenge. It destroys the belief that human beings have the capacity to change. It can be argued economically, ethically, or on a factional basis, but capital punishment needs to be left in the history books. It simply has no place in today's society. It is time to move on.