Capital punishment has been existent in many societies for a long time now. It means to punish by the death penalty. Many improvements and methods had been made to change these punishments in order to make it seem more humane, as it had been deemed as barbaric in the past. Now, lethal injections have been used to replace the previous method of beheading someone. Capital punishment might still face some opposition by human rights group …showed first 75 words of 923 total…

…showed last 75 words of 923 total…effective in maintaining order in the region. However, this punishment should only be carried out to criminals of the most serious crimes and not to those who commit petty crimes. Implementing capital punishment in an attempt to enforce one of the ways to maintain order is one matter, deeming someone to lose their lives is another altogether, and should be carried out only in the most serious of crimes, and judged on a case-by-case basis.