Capital punishment is one of the ways how to punish criminal. In my essay I describe what capital punishment is, write about history and nowadays. Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies but nowadays many countries abolished it. Only in United States of America (but not in all America), China, India and Indonesia continue to apply death penalty. These are countries where is overpopulation, maybe this is the reason of why they continue capital punishment, maybe in these countries human or criminal life is not so important. In Europe capital punishment is not prohibited. I think in every country has to prohibit capital punishment because imprisonment is biggest punishment for criminals. The best way how to punish criminal is give him life imprisonment, if the sentence is capital punishment people is death and that’s all. But if government put criminal in prison for life this is better because criminal really feel the pain he just stay in prison for the rest of his life and then maybe he think about the pain which he did to another people. The worst thing that someone else can do with you is restrict your freedom. You cannot feel alive if you cannot feel free. This is my thesis – capital punishment it’s not punishment for criminals but it is pain for his relatives. Relatives suffer more but criminal just know that he is just dying and he is going to be relieved from everything. To sit in prison for example in India could be worse than just die. Government has no rights give criminal capital punishment even if he was killed a lot of people no one has right to punish people in that way. The second thing why capital punishment is not so good because government can punish people who are totally innocent and it happens.