Turgenev Text: Capitol Punishment

The Execution of Troppman, the main event in Turgenev's writing shows the extremes that capitol punishment presents and that by carrying out an execution in front of a live crowd of people that justice is not really served. Throughout the text, Turgenev's opinion remains solid in that he disagrees with the cruelty and spectacle that public execution presents. While present at the execution Turgenev recalls feeling sick and questioning his right to be at the execution. What right did he and the other men have to see this man die? This is one of the many questions that Turgenev ponders revealing that he feels uncomfortable and out of place at the execution because he is against this form of capitol punishment. His argument towards the fact that they had no right to be at this mans execution is strong in supporting his extreme disagreement with public execution.
The tone of the text reflects Turgenev's view on capitol punishment in that the passage gives an overall tone of disgust and resentment. The tone is set right from the beginning of the text when Turgenev states that he did not really want to go to the execution but that if he refused he would look like a coward. Turgenev resents capitol punishment and by giving the reader a strong sense of this one can see his opinion on capitol punishment clearly. 
The purpose of the paper that Turgenev tries to convey is that capitol punishment is nothing but a source of amusement for onlookers. The purpose of including the crowd of people who usually weren't on the streets of Paris at that time of night is to show that the execution appealed to people who were only interested and awake at that time of night to see a man die, and then the spectacle would be over. Turgenev scrutinizes, not only capitol punishment but the people who indulge in the spectacle of execution. Turgenev describes the roar of the crowd as a crescendo of noise getting louder every hour as the execution neared. His purpose of using the word crescendo to describe the roar of the crowd is to show the growing excitement in the onlookers and he believes that this growing excitement is almost animalistic in that the crowd is waiting to watch a man die.
In my opinion Turgenev thoroughly explains the cruelty of capitol punishment and because of his purpose for writing I strongly agree with his argument. Justice being served does not have to be through a public display of death, however more humane ways of making sure justice is served is an option that I also agree with. Through Turgenevs text, capitol punishment is revealed for the fraud that it is.