Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: PROS AND CONS Capital punishment is a subject you can always count on for a lively discussion with plenty of opinions and lots of questions. "Capital Punishment is a term which indicates muddled thinking. The dilemma of kill or be killed, which confronts civilized society daily and inexorably, is bedeviled by the jumble of panic, superstition, and angry resentment we call punishment, expiation, propitiatory blood sacrifice, justice, and many other imposing names. The …

…George Bernard Shaw (2) "Capital Punishment," Biblical Principles, (Plymouth Rock Foundation), 1984, p. 17 (3) Ibid (4) The Death Penalty: Pro and Con (Copyright 1986 Harvard Law Review Association), The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense, Ernest van den Haag, John M. Olin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy, Fordham University. (5) A Non-Pacifist Argument Against Capital Punishment, Roy Weatherford (6) The Coastal Post - May, 1997, Abolish Capital Punishment, Rob Phillips (7) Grisham 404, Grisham, John. The Chamber. New York: Island Books, 1994 (8) Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738.