In the highly debated issue of whether the death penalty is just, I choose to voice my opinion. The death penalty to me is almost an easy way out. Does killing fix killing? Are we living in Babylonian times under Hammurabi? I don’t think so. It’s not so much the fact that we are killing killers, it’s the fact that we are simply wasting and eliminating them from society where they could be used to do better things.
A lot of people think and voice that the death penalty is the most correct way to deal with brutal murderers. They should also believe that if you get caught raping someone your Johnson should be cut off. They should also believe that the punishment for stealing should be the removal of your hands. Its nonsense. I’m not going to argue this against a family whose loved one has been murdered. That’s just silly. All the family wants is some justice for the loss of their own. The justice they feel necessary is the chair or the needle which is totally understandable. But don’t you think that the murderer is almost getting off easy? Wouldnâ€
Not all victims of the death penalty have to be retarded. Some are given the death penalty because pf their race. Some are given the death penalty on a softer murder case as others who brutally kill and rape sometimes get years and or life. It’s obvious the death penalty is not fair and certainly not a fair way to deal with murderers. As I stated earlier, only extremely cases should bring about the question of the death penalty.
I watched a special on HBO about 3 months ago about a 30 year old woman named Wanda Jean or Jeannie. She was charged and convicted of the murder of her girlfriend in the first degree. Jeannie was drugged up at the time and is also a borderline retard (literally) with an I.Q. below 70. The act of violence came out of rage in which she had no reasonable thought of her actions. Yes. Jeannie did kill. Jeannie was sentenced to death back in 1987. In the program I watched the date was May 16th 2001. That’s fourteen years of waiting to die. Jeannie was still appealing her case. She felt complete remorse for what she had done and was fully healed. She devoted