The Death Penalty: Why Should I Support Capital Punishment?

''I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.'' Those were words of the 43rd President of the United States, George Walker Bush. Capital Punishment is a controvercial issue in the present-day world. This turbulent dispute whether the punishment should be retained or not has been going on for years. Since the begining of the human history, at first, people have been sentenced to death for relatively minor and harmless crimes, such as theft or killing farm animals. With the passing of time the institution of capital punishment has started to evolve and it proceeded to be practised in times of more serious crimes.
The first recorded document that contained laws of capital punishment was The Code Of Hammurabi from 1700s B.C. Included there were 25 crimes for which a person could have been executed. When it comes to America, the history of death penalty dates back to colonial times when America, influenced by Britain, executed Captain George Kendall for betrayal in 1608. This case was the first recorded use of capital punishment, thus it has to be pointed out that there was not necessarily any other execution before. Since that, throughout all these years the death penalty system has gone through some relevant changes. At the outset, the use of capital punishment ranged from theft, killing farm animals, betrayal, and witchcraft to rape and, obviously, murder. Later on, the crimes punishable by death have been limited mostly to murder and
Hochkammer, Jr. there are also a few other. The first one that deserves attention is a retribution matter. Death penalty can be perceived as an act of revenge for inflicted harm. Some people believe that a person who has taken somebody else's life should not have a right to live either. Sentencing the criminal to capital punishment can give a sense of relief to the family of the victim and allow them to obtain some kind of justice. People who favor capital punishment reckon that an execution of a convict should fit the frames of a crime he has commited. While commiting the wrongdoing the criminal takes away life, peace, freedom and other most important humane values. Therefore, the same exact action should be done to him. While talking about the retribution issue people usually refer to the famous saying ''an eye for an