The death penalty has been an extremely important issue that has been around since before the settlement of the United States. Throughout history, even in biblical times, the ideal of “an eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth” has come up in determining the punishment to fit the crime committed. When dealing with the issue of the death penalty, we are talking about something that has no definite right or wrong standpoint. It …showed first 75 words of 651 total…

…showed last 75 words of 651 total…it right for their life to be taken from them. It is only God's place to decide whether or not a person should live or die. If we now allow the death penalty as a form of final punishment for such serious crimes as murder, then one must wonder if in the future, this penalty may be applied to other crimes in which the government may later deem to be of a similar serious nature.