Capital Punishment on Trial: Which Side Is Correct? by Theodore Kamis ( Originally submitted as a term paper for an English course (Instructor: S. Winifred Morgan) at Edgewood College, Madison, WI, on 12 May 1996. ) In most of the industrialized world, capital punishment is not used to punish criminals. Even South Africa, once notorious for its many executions, is giving up capital punishment. However, it is still used in the United States. The capital punishment debate in the …showed first 75 words of 2224 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2224 total…Even if one presumed that the supporters had refuted this, they could not refute the argument that the finality of capital punishment does not allow errors to be corrected. The Marquis de Lafayette concludes, "Till the infallibility of human judgement shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the death penalty" (Radelet 281). Since the supporters of capital punishment have never claimed that they could prove this, I must agree with Lafayette.