Today’s society is accustomed to prove that killing someone under certain circumstances is justifiable, when in all reality there can be no rationalization for the taking of another human life. Killing is murder, is execution, is the death penalty. There have been many different controversies surrounding this debate that often the issues become clouded in false statistics to slewed arguments. The fact remains that killing is morally and ethically wrong. This fact does not disappear by simply changing the term “murder” to “capital punishment”. The act is still the taking of a human life. Proponents of capital punishment believe that killing criminals is a moral and ethical way of punishing them. Society has come to feel that there
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