Is Death Penalty Moral?

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Death and Dying Paper: Is Capital Punishment Immoral?

What is a Capital Punishment?

According to The American Civil Liberties Union (2007), Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, execution, and death sentence, is the highest form of punishment to the crime one has committed. Capital punishment is done in various ways and it differs from cultures to cultures. Some of the most common ways of execution includes hanging the person to death, administering a lethal injection, garroting, lethal gassing, firing squad, electrocution, live burial, poison consumption, drowning to death, stoning to death, and decapitation. It is publicized in societies, which inculcate fear in the minds of the public, which ideally will result in the reduction of the crime rate of that said society. Capital punishment has always been used since the early times, but as the emergence of several international organizations like the United Nation (UN), Amnesty International, and several human rights organization, the issue of concern about it has increased dramatically. Now a day it is frowned upon by most cultural and religious groups because of the belief that it violates the rights of any human being and that it is not as different as the assassination of another person. Finally, one of the main reasons why it is said to be a violation of basic human rights is that the execution of a person is final and irreversible and can never be regain.

Ethical Problems with Capital Punishment

Personally, I think that any form of death penalty is immoral and unjustifiable. One of the main reasons why I think it is immoral is that we are all born without any clothes on, which means everyone is equal one way or another. As human beings, we are not eligible or qualified in any way to assume the authority to choose who shall live and who shall not. The amount of crime one has committed is anyway not a basis on...