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DEATH PENALTY: Benefit or Harm to Society? The practice of Death Penalty is probably as old as the beginning of this world. For most of our history, it was not as controversial as it is now. Since the sunrise of crimes most governments punished the major criminals by execution, which became a routine part of any society with law. During 1800’s, people started to realize the importance of individuals and criticized government practices they considered unjust, like Death Penalty. The debate over whether governments should utilize the death penalty still continues today. In this debate, I incline more towards applying the death penalty because nothing life imprisonment is not just nor does it provides maximum public safety. Most opponents debate that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment because we are taking another person’s life. If a person thinks it’s not cruel to kill an innocent, then why should we, the society, think like that for him? In the case of capital punishment I agree with the “an eye for an eye” principle. For example, if a person steals money from you and the same thing happens to him later, who does not think it is fair? The death penalty is not so unusual either. It is a known fac