Tug of War A Deep Look Into The Controversy Surrounding The Death Penalty Is the death penalty fair? Is it humane? Does it deter crime? The answers to these questions vary depending on who answers them. The issue of capital punishment raises many debates. These same questions troubled Americans just as much in the day of the Salem witch trials as now in the say of Timothy McVeigh. During the time of the Salem witchcraft …showed first 75 words of 1494 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1494 total…date on which they will be executed. I think it ought to be spontaneous so that there wont be as much mental anguish. I believe that there are benefits to capital punishment, but I also believe that there will always be a human flaw. There is always a chance that the person whose life is being taken from him is innocent. There is no reasonable argument or justification in the loss of an innocent life.