Capital Punishment: Just or Unjust?

Capital Punishment is defined in the Webster's Dictionary as the death penalty. "Capital" refers to a person's head because people were executed by severing their head from their body in the past. Capital punishment is a controversial issue that will be talked about forever because it is a past and current issue. Currently, lethal injection is the form most prisoners choose when it comes to dying procedures because it is by far the most painless …

…percentage that oppose capital punishment believe convicts should serve a life imprisonment with no hope for parole, ever; and inmates should work and earn money to pay back the family of the person that they killed. I support capital punishment because if someone kills, they deserve to be killed. I wish everyone could be friends and live long and peaceful lives but that will never happen as long as anger persists in our society today.