Should Capital Punishment be Banished?

            Should Capital Punishment be Banished?.
             Capital Punishment is the ultimate sentence someone can get for murder.
             and other horrible and heinous crimes. The death penalty has been around for.
             thousands of years. It dates back all the way to before the Bible with the.
             crucifixion of Jesus. Many methods of capital punishment have been performed .
             throughout the years. There were obviously the crucifixions, but there was also stoning, .
             beheading, hanging, shootings from a firing squad, the electric chair, gas chambers, and .
             now they have lethal injections. All of this sounds horrible and inhumane, but people must .
             think about what the criminal did before he/she was sentenced to death. People must .
             realize that these people need to die for their horrible crimes! However, if we kill them .
             then we will stoop to their level. If we throw them into a jail cell for years and years then .
             they will feel like they have gone through hell and hopefully want to change. .
             Those who support the banishment of capital punishment would say that.
             "it is nothing but a barbaric and inhumane act of vengeance on people" (Garcia1). .
             However, one that is opposed to the banishment capital punishment would state a.
             particular phrase, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," from the .
             Bible, meaning that if you kill then you shall be killed. It is only fair that one gets what is .
             coming to them. Although this phrase is pretty convincing, try replacing the word .
             "eye," with the word, "life." If the executioner kills the victim, then technically he/she too .
             should be killed according to that phrase (Robertson 14). Aren't they just doing there job .
             though? No, if we let that slide, then we would have to let the murder slide too because .
             they could have been doing a job for somebody else such as a mob boss or gangster of .
             some sort.
             From a money standpoint many people say that the death penalty saves money .
             for taxpayers due to reduced court and imprisonment fees (Warren 1).