The topic of capital punishment is, and has been a sensitive issue. Debates over the capital punishment are centered on the morality of taking a human life. Questions on whether or not our justice system is capable of sentencing a person to death on accurate evidence. Civil rights groups are even involved claiming that races and financial backgrounds can either save or condemn the accused. While these are the arguments of those who stand opposed to the death penalty, there is also a great deal of people in support of capital punishment. These people see it as an effective means of punishment and deterrent to violent crime. An effective way of cutting the costs involved with housing an inmate for life. Supporters al

Despite the fact that the two groups’ claims are so different, the source of their arguments is where I find my claim. Both groups draw from issues that lie at the center of our society. There are ideas that the federal government should be more involved in matters of the individual states, an idea that the ACLU supports due to the court decision made in 1976. There are religious beliefs that tell the biblical story of the execution and resurrection of Jesus. And there is the earlier example of the legal issue of how much power the people and the courts should be allowed to have, which also leads into another topic of the effects of new technology, like DNA testing, that can either overturn an early ruling of guilt or at the same time increase the effectiveness of a prosecutions case against the accused.

Besides stopping the problem, at the source we can also move our focus to strengthening the justice system instead of limiting it. Those opposed to the death penalty claim that America’s justice system is not equipped to sentence a person to death because they feel innocent people might be put to death. In itself this is a problem. No one wants to see an innocent person put to death much less an innocent person put in jail for any amount of time. However, is the solution an end to the death penalty? I think not. With the advent of DNA testing, the margin for error in many cases is almost nonexistent. In fact, there have been death row inmates that have been saved because of such a high technology. This is an example that the system does work, and that it can correct itself. So why waste resources and man power on trying to end the death penalty when these resources can be used to do something positive for society instead of being wasted on some of the worst human rights violators in our society.

so believe that it is a way to help those associated with the victim of a violent crime to find closure to acts of such violence. Although the two sides of the argument over the death penalty should not be ignored, I believe that there is a more important issue that we can pay more attention.

As I mentioned earlier, I belie

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