Essays on Capital Punishment

Capital punishment or capital offense is an execution that kills someone committees an unforgivable or inhumane crime according to the country´s law. Nowadays, there are 56 countries still practicing this penalty, such as China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. I agree with capital punishment because it...

“Capital punishment is a fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is a wrong cure for poverty”. Henry Ford. According to the history, there have been several types of capital punishment, all of them with the function of killing people by the state...

Capital punishment is a law permitted in many countries around the world. It is the action of killing criminals who have been declared guilty for committing an unforgivable crime. It has to be approved by a court and the government run it justly just in...

“To forgive is to free a captive and find out the captive was you” – Lewis Smedes. The first thing that comes to mind when thinking in the capital punishment is use to kill a felonious for the reason that he did something very bad,...

Capital punishment comes from the term ‘poena’ in Latin, which refers to the penalty imposed by the judge in a court when the judge believes that a crime was committed, this imposes a penalty that in this case is death directly. This does not happen...

The Catholic Church’s teachings have not always been consistent, specifically exemplified in the issue of capital punishment. Prominent historic figures in the Catholic Church such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas had strongly supported the death penalty. Augustine says that ‘it is in no way contrary...

The topic of the research is reprieve of criminals from capital punishment. The paper focuses on how the issuance of the death penalty to convicted criminals goes against the same human rights that the law tries to protect. The paper thus proposes a thesis proving...