Before we answer that. Lets look at what Capital Punishment is and a bit of its brief history.
Capital punishment, also known as the
death penalty, is the
execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as
capital crimes or
capital offences. The term
capital origins from Latin
capitalis, literally "regarding the head" (Latin
caput). Hence, a capital crime originally was to be punished by the loss of head.
Historically, the execution of criminals and political opponents was used by nearly all societies—both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent. In most places that practice capital punishment today, the death penalty is reserved as punishment for premeditated murder, espionage, treason, or as part of military justice. In some countries sexual crimes, such as rape, adultry, incest and sodomy, carry the death penalty, as do religious crimes such as apostasy (the formal renunciation of the State religion). In many retentionist countries (countries that use the death penalty), drug trafficking is also a capital offense. In China human trafficking and serious cases of corruption are also punished by the death penalty. In militaries around the world courts-marshal have imposed death sentences for offenses such as cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and mutiny.
[Extracts from Wikipedia]
Now, when you pick a choice as your opinion on it, please kindly explain why you chose the option you chose. I believe we can extract a lot out of this topic and should be able to spread out a spectrum of different opinions.
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