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Should The Death Penalty Be A Type Of Corporal Punishment?

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As a young child, there is often punishment for wrongdoing. After being told not to follow through with an action, children are often disciplined with a spanking in order to ensure that it does not happen again. When children grow up and become adults, instead of being punished for committing worse actions, they are instead given a slap on the hand and sent to a cell in an institution that provides not only food, but television as well. In order to prevent criminals from believing that committing a serious crime has no severe punishment, the nation should adopt a type of corporal punishment. As adults, we have grown out of spankings from our parents, but that also means that the responsibility for actions has been placed upon our shoulders. Whether it be positive or negative, there is a consequence for every action taken. Therefore, with a negative action a negative consequence should be given. While the death penalty may appear faintly harsh and inhuman, so is the killing of other humans. With an unpopular vote among the nation, “the number of inmates put to death in 2014 was the fewest in 20 years” (Von). Referring back to the first paragraph, without punishment a child will continue to acquit themselves in an unacceptable manner since they do not understand that there is anything illicit with their behavior. Unless told not to, adults occasionally behave the same way. For instance, in 1972 John Wojtowicz “held eight bank employees hostage and threatened to kill them

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