Capital Punishment-Lethal Injection

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Capital punishment, or the Death Penalty, has been used since the ancient times. People have been sentenced to anything from decapitation, to being hung, to the electric chair for hundreds of years. From the Salem Witch Trials to the Holocaust, the death penalty has been a timeless part of our worlds history. Though Capital Punishment may be more brutal in some parts of the world than others, it is still a major part of our justice system. But, is Capital Punishment by lethal injection all that just? Do you think that all those axe murders that chopped a family of five up into ground beef really deserve to get out of it that easily? I don't. I do not believe ...

... are being sentenced to death should be sentenced to life in prison. They should be reminded daily of what they did to end up where they are and have to work in community service without pay for the rest of their life until they eventually die in prison. I think that they do not deserve the death penalty, it is too easy for them to get out of everything that they have done. When they brutally murder someone and then they are told that they will be killed in the most humane and pleasant way possible, is appalling. It is not fair to the one(s) they have killed, nor the family of the victim that

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