Submitted by yabethd on 08/28/2009 09:21 AM Flag This Paper
Join NowAs moral beings, we humans deserve praise for the good deeds and punishment for bad ones. The punishment may range from a slap on a wrist to death, but I believe the punishment should fit the crime. I don’t accept a person being put to death for killing someone as an act of self-defense. No one on this earth wants to die, and if a person is in the situation of life and death, I'm definite that everyone will fight to survive. If a victim is life-threatened by gunman, he should be given the right to protect himself under any circumstances. The arguments for death penalty involve its use as prevention, an act to save lives, and a way to achieve justice. Murdering an individual is a heinous crime which displays the Ignorance of the one and only precious life. Someone who murders another human being can only be made to pay for his actions by sacrificing his own life. Many disagree and conclude that they should be sentenced for life. This is totally injustice because while the victim's family is left with a life changing depression by the loss of someone they love, the prisoner gets three meals a day, break time, and regular visits with family or friends. It also come to sense for an imprisonment as a punishment for theft, then the punishment for murder must be much more severe because human life is much more valuable than anything in the world. Simply, the loss of life can never compare to the loss of freedom. So therefore, death is the appropriate punishment for intentionally murdering an individual.