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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.