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Fire Must Be Fought With Fire Capital Punishment is a legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law (Aneras,13). People have been put to death for many different criminal actions. Means of execution have involved crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, impaling, and beheading (Cusco, 23). As times evolved, the methods of execution that were practiced did too. Today, the most typical forms of capital punishment are lethal gas or injection, electrocution, hanging, or shooting (Aneras, 18). Due to its finality, and the purpose behind its nature, the death sentence is the most controversial penalty in the world (Elliot, 3). The opponents of capital punishment strongly promote that this penalty is degrading to the humanity of the individual who is punished (Elliot, 7). However, the stronger and more logical argument is that capital punishment provides the most complete form retribution and offers the threat of execution. This threat serves as a deterrent to society (Drazzo, 32). Thus, the penalty of death is necessary for the punishment of terrible crimes, as well as the avoidance of future criminal wrongdoings. Critics of capital punishment contend that it is brutal and degrading (Fleras,16).
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