... by definition of natural moral law, they are a good human being. Committing murderous crimes is not living to full potential. No one on this earth is born with the sole purpose and particular moral conscious to kill, with malice, another human being. The very fact that a murderer purposely violates another beings right to live forfeits their own rights to live. The capital sanction is justifiable. The debate over capital punishment has traditionally focused on its appropriateness as a form of punishment and its value in deterring criminals in society. Historically, execution has served as a significant form of punishment for deviance from social norms and serious criminal behavior. People compare U.S. execution rates with the execution rates of the rest of the world and see a huge difference, even though half of the world still administers the sanction (Collinsworth: 90). For being the nation with the world's ...

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