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Argumentative Essay about DEATH PENALTY Is it or is it not right to take the life of another person? Is capital punishment a deterrent for would-be murderers? Is it good or not to take someone's life? These are very hard questions and it is very hard to answer them, too. Maybe it is a good solution for the state to kill the people who did awful things to reduce the costs for keeping someone in prison but all in all I think that nobody has the right to take the life of another person. A passage from a text says, death penalty justifiably rids society of the cost of keeping murderers in jail.

This is true but I think it is even more pitiful than it is already to sentence all people to death just because they would cost more money if imprisoned. Moreover there is a small likelihood that an innocent person will be put to death and this is an important point why I disagree with this method of "criminal removal". Another point is that death on an electric chair is not very humane and this is a fact, but on the other hand I really do not know how humane the venom injection is. Maybe it is a more humane method, nevertheless, I think that nobody has the right to decide over life or death. So I disagree with capital punishment no matter how humane the method is. For people found guilty of crimes of passion the death penalty would not act as a punishment or as a deterrent, maybe this is true, but it doesn't matter because people who killed other persons have to be punished and death penalty would only be liberation of their pain and no punishment.

Lifelong imprisonment would be a more suitable punishment for them as they would have the chance to think about their passionate mistakes a long time. Maybe the family of the victim feels better, but for them the sense behind death penalty is not the punishment of the murderer but taking revenge upon him as they can see his suffering in contrast to him being locked away in prison for all his life. All in all I think that nobody has the right to kill someone, no matter if the person is a convicted terrorist, a traitor, a murder or something else. Nobody is allowed to think that he has the right to decide about life or death and so I completely disagree with all kinds of death penalty..