Death Penalty (Does the state have the right to kill another person?)

Who would say that more than 2,000 years ago humans already thought about the right or wrong aspects of life. Many people would say that 2,000 years ago we were focused on more concrete things, and that were the aspects we called survival and interdependence. As I began to understand more of our world, I took a clear stance over society and how should it function. With the years passing, I began to philosophize and came up not only with a perspective of the rules and regulations we should be subject to, but a school of thought, or better a religion nowadays was founded. Buddhism takes a stance on judging what is right, and all of it follows its ultimate goal in teaching how to reach nirvana; the state of enlightenment in which desires and ambitions are extinguished. As I saw this moral question before my eyes I knew this religion had a defined stance to answer in the most sincere words. Death penalty is a misconception adopted by some people who believe it is not only the solution, but the right thing to follow in regards to violence in society. To what my memory recalls, I remember stating that equality and nonviolence were amongst the pillars that supported the foundation of Buddhism, and I will not fail to restate my beliefs towards this case. Death penalty is a solution to cowards, to those that think we are reigned by the famous yet vacuous quote: "an eye for eye". The world should accept the fact that there live around us many people who are ignorant with morality, and for that we should act in an intelligent basis. What do I mean with this? Establishing death penalty produces a circular flow of violence, where someone kills an innocent, and the sate kills the murderer; nothing has been achieved, but violence. Let the ignorant follow their way. We should know that adding violence to any societal implication is not a moral thing to do, and for that humans need to understad that in our lives the right thing to do is to live by the moral teachings that are subject to righteousness. My religion follows the nonviolence, and I have addressed myself as a nonviolent...