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An innocent man is wrongly executed whilst a man who raped and killed a mother and her thirteen year old daughter spends the rest of his life with three meals every day along with cable television. Which of these will be the bigger injustice? The usage of the death penalty to punish serious offenses is a very controversial topic and there is a lot of debate surrounding the situation.

This paper will discuss arguments supporting and against the use of the death penalty. The death penalty which is Of a crime by execution. Such extreme sentences are given for very serious offenses such as premeditated murder, and several murders, perennial offenses, rape and murder and so on, in which the offender is considered to be of an ongoing danger to society.

Lots of people across America encourage the usage of the death penalty because they believe that it is a hindrance, religiously appropriate, more cost effective than maintaining a person behind bars for life and serves as the only real prosecution for certain major crimes. The death penalty is practiced across America in half eight countries. (Washington Post 2008: e.data) It is argued that the potential for receiving the death penalty works as a strong deterrence against significant offenses because people are not as likely to commit such offences due to fear of.

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