Capital Punishment: Give me liberty or give me death?

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Ages ago in Greek and Roman culture there was many ways of execution for the inmate such as: putting the person in a bag with venomous snakes and let them kill them, or put them in a cooper bull that they would put the person in the bull close it. Then they would build a fire under the bull and listen to the person scream. The screaming would turn to smoke when it went through the nostrils making it look as if it was mad (history channel). In biblical era the death penalty was even used in harsh ways such as stoning people as the famous Jesus story which says the one who has not sinned throw the first stone. And no one threw the stone because some way in their lives they have done something but not gotten caught. Today many types of killing are used as most people are oblivious to the fact we are not the only country in the world. The Taliban today still uses some of these harsh ways. In the book The Kite Runner at the soccer game he witness a public execution when they bury the person up to their head, then toke a sword and chop the head right off and clean it up for the second half to begin (Hosseini). There was a time where rulers did not use capital punishment during the reign of King Canute and William the conqueror, the death penalty was not use. But they used torture and that was often fatal. Under the Greek law of The Draconian Code all crime no matter how small it was always punishable by death (Bedau). The most well-known time period was the French Revolution when anyone that was unlike the citizens would find a crime that they could be killed for such as treason. King Louie the XVI was one of the last people killed during that time for treason because of his lavish life style and the massive amount of poverty wit... ... middle of paper ... ...are pure enough to kill the other person can kill he/she but, no one is pure enough to kill anyone. In conclusion, to this fine paper of anti death penalty if you do not agree with my stance we need to have a talk because the biggest fight for pro death penalty supporters is the cost efficiently that most people think it is cheaper to kill the person. But as I found out and told you that the cost is much more to kill the inmate because of the legal fees adding up to around 2-3 million dollars for just the legal fees and then if he/she is convicted there has to be 23 hours of maximum security for those who are on death row. This is just that fee there is the cost of living for about the next 20-30 years because in most states they are not going to kill you for a while the technique is to let you sit there and not know when you will be killed until the day before.

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