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Punishment under the law should be about maintaining civil order not personal gratification. The idea behind the death penalty should be that some people are just too dangerous to be allowed to live any longer within our society, however, this idea that death penalty is about retribution and closure for the families of victims makes the death penalty useless within our society. Whenever I've tried to debate the death penalty in the past that viewpoint always comes up and I think that is an awful justification for killing someone. Our society shouldn't be institutionalizing revenge and because it seems to believe that is what it should be doing I'll never support the death penalty.

When I apply my own beliefs on how the death penalty should be applied to the story at hand I can't help but agree with it. A child rapist certainly alters another person's life permanently and certainly causes long-term mental and probably physical trauma, however, they don't end the person's life. When you kill someone that is the end and as evil and wrong as child molestation is it doesn't close the book on someone's life. It's wrong on a deep and personal level to the vast majority of humans, however, that doesn't give us the right to take revenge.