The death penalty as a form of punishment is perhaps the single most debatable issue in the legal system today. While most U.S. citizens remain in the darkness regarding the country’s Criminal Justice System; most of European critics have voiced concerns over the issue of capital punishment. It is worth noting that the United States remains as the only Western developed nation that upholds capital punishment in its criminal justice system. In this paper I seek to challenge the morality of this form of punishment from a moral, legal and logical point of view. Though the death penalty has been there from time immemorial with nearly four centuries having passed since the first documented lawful execution on American soil in 1608, it is clear that at this time and era, it has overstayed its usefulness both as a form of justice and a deterrent of crime.