Surname 1 Your University The Ethics and Morality Behind the Death Penalty Your Name Course Name and Number Professor Number Paper Due Date Surname 2 A death penalty is a form of punishment that involves taking away the life of a person found guilty of committing certain types of crimes. ("Why Amnesty Opposes the Death Penalty Without Exception") It is a severe form of punishment that is characterized by intense brutal actions after the criminal has been brought in front of a jury and declared guilty after substantial evidence has been presented by the prosecutor. (Throsten) The death penalty is still a practice that exists till date even with the numerous efforts by social activists to try and get rid of it. The death penalty began long ago and dates back to the eighteenth century where the then ruler of Babylon king Hammurabi, was notorious for applying the death penalty to those ruled out as criminals in the eyes of the law. The first form of this punishment was through hanging a person which involved a person being tied to a rope from their necks and subjected to a force which then strangled them to death. Britain is among the very first nations to popularize this form of execution and they often passed a number of laws that clearly stated these types of crimes were liable to this punishment. Apart from hanging, brutal methods such as burning someone alive, beheading them and boiling them are just but a few methods that were constantly used by these states to get rid ...
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