The Death penalty Dear President GW Bush, As you know capital punishment has existed throughout most of our nations’’s history. Personally it is not the right procedure to deal with criminal justice. More than five hundred and twenty-five men and women have been put to death by the state. Thirty-five hundred people are now on death row. During 1996, at least four thousand two hundred and seventy-two prisoners are known to have been executed in …showed first 75 words of 539 total…

…showed last 75 words of 539 total…were committed of. Hugo Bedua, in The Case Against the Death Penalty states that, ““A society that respect life does not deliberately kill human beings. An execution is a violent public spectacle of official homicide, and one that endorses killing to solve social problems-the worst possible example to set for the citizenry. So as you can see the benefits of capitol punishment are illusory, but the bloodshed and resulting destruction of community decency are real””.