When it comes down to it the death penalty does not single out the worst offenders, but instead it selects

ment is not needed to serve justice and accomplishes nothing except extending a chain of violence and teaching our children that two wrongs do make a right and it is okay if one day the whole world goes blind. This is not what we want to be teaching the next generation and so now is as good a time as any to abolish capitol punishment.

The death penalty is truly an insensible way to deal with society’s failures. It is extremely expensive, unfair and risky. If by killing all these criminals we are just spending a lot of money, causing more pain for extended families, and possibly killing an innocent person than why does capitol punishment still exist? The death penalty is extremely callous; the two methods used today, the electric chair and lethal injection, have not been proven painless. In fact the electric chair is extremely violent and inflicts an enormous amount of pain. Once the switch is thrown the condemned prisoner cringes, leaps, turns red and white and often limbs will catch fire. Sometimes the victim defecates, urinates, vomits blood, and at times his or her eyeballs will pop out and rest on the cheek. That is how a condemned prisoner may die. There are no valid, strong arguments that support the death penalty, yet it is legal in more seventy percent of the fifty-two states? (paddy) Capitol punish

Life is the most precious gift we as humans are given and when someone takes a life, the balance of justice is disturbed. A lot of people believe that the only way to restore this balance is to take a murderer’s life. Retribution holds all of its foundations in religious values. It is still said today again and again an eye for an eye or in the murderer’s case a life for a life. Once someone is killed there is nothing anybody can do to restore the lost life however many people feel in order to bring closure to the crime and ordeal of the victim’s family the murderer must be killed. That way the family can feel justified and it is ensured that the murderer will create no more victims. Yet in truth revenge won’t solve anything. As Mohandas Gandhi put it “an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind”. Revenge is simply an emotional impulse that should not be sufficient justification to utilize a system such as capitol punishment. Our laws should show a complete respect for life no matter if it’s that of a doctor, child or murderer. By allowing executions the system is just extending the chain of violence. Although many may believe that all families of the murder victim want the killer dead, this is not true. In actuality many families denounce the use of capitol punishment. Bud Welch’s testimony is an excellent support to this. His daughter, Julie, was killed in the Oklahoma bombing. Bud’s first reaction was to wish that those who committed the terrible crime be killed, however he ultimately realized that such killing “ is simply vengeance; and it was vengeance that killed Julie…vengeance is a strong and natural emotion, but it has no place in our justice sy

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