Death Penalty The death penalty is the most severe sentence in our legal system. This requires a law official to kill an offender. In many countries the death penalty doesn't exists, but in the United States many states allow the death penalty. Today, there is a big controversy over capital punishment and whether it is morally right. We greatly value our own lives so should the lives of others belong in our hands? Do we …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…person alive is one day closer to dying. When you think of death that way, it makes it sound scary. The death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment and no one should ever have to go through it. Our constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment but still we allow executions to take place. In any situation an execution is not necessary. There are so many other ways to punish a person other than death.