Remove the italicized material as appropriate for your class. The right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment is used to show executions as barbaric. Societies that are in turmoil, threatened, and crime-ridden may be more prone to feel executions are necessary to maintain public order. Societies that are very stable and peaceful tend to be less interested in capital punishment. So, the rights of the individual and those of the group have to be balanced.
People have a fundamental right to be safe and secure.
I believe that it is important to have capital punishment as the ultimate deterrent to crime. People must understand they will be held accountable or society will be a mess.