Capital Punishment Capital punishment originates in America all the way back to the eighteenth century. Colonist living in those times would be put to death for denying the true God or for petty theft. Back then, they took the death penalty a lot less lightly then the thought and debate it is known for now. They believed if you committed a crime that was heinous enough, you deserved to have your rights stripped of you …showed first 75 words of 1158 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1158 total…in this country would drop convincingly. Some people argue that this would be uncivilized and cruel, but these people are already uncivilized. Capital punishment must be the standard by which each and every state must abide by. If we can not join together and defeat crime, it will most certainly take us over. We must come together and draw a line on crime. For a cold blooded killer, capital punishment is the only true justice.