-P1: Write a brief history about what capital punishment is and its history in Canada. Referencing the short story “Two Fishermen” discuss how if the story was based in Canada when it might have taken place on your knowledge of capital punishment.

About one-third of the countries in the world have laws that allow the capital punishment, but also have some countries abolished the capital punishment.In pre-Confederation Canada, hundreds of criminal offences were punishable by death. Murder remained a capital crime until 1998, when Canada completely abolished the death penalty.

If “Two Fishermen” happens in Canada, and is happened after 1998 when Canada completely abolished the death penalty, Thomas Delaney would not sentence to death.

-P2: Also, discuss your opinion on whether Thomas Delaney should have been killed for his actions in defending his wife. Come up with an argument and three reasons why or why not he should have been killed.

Thomas Delaney should not be killed for his actions. Matthew Reinhart was molesting Thomas Delaney’s wife and that’s when Thomas Delaney killed him. First, his action was justifiable defense. He saw that his wife’ life was in danger, so he killed Matthew Reinhart so that he can protect his wife. Second, Thomas is not a threat to society, he didn’t kill a person for blood lust. Especially, Matthew was a disgusting rapist. Finally, when the imperfection of the law and government can not protect and help the people, people were very helpless, can only be relied on themselves through their own way. Law is inanimate but humanly is emotional, the law must always be bundled with human.