Con Death Penalty

The topic of the death penalty is a very controversial topic. Many see it as an unfair and inhumane way to punish a human being, others see it as a fair way to punish say a killer or someone of that stature. According to ( 2014.Bureau of Justice Statistics, Capital Punishment 2011, DPIC) methods of the death penalty include the electric chair,lethal injection, firing squad,and haning. According to the article (Balko, Radley.DNA Testing Reveals Serious Problems in the Capital Punishment System.) “more than a quarter of DNA exonerations included a false confession or guilty plea. The plea bargaining process can also induce innocent people to plead guilty to lesser crimes to avoid charges with more serious prison time, particularly in drug cases.” Freddie Peacock of Rochester, New York, was convicted of rape in 1976. DNA Testing Shows That Wrongful Convictions Happen The Innocence Project cites a study by Seton Hall's D. Michael Risinger that puts the percentage of innocents in prison at 3 to 5 percent.

According to the article ("Christian Doctrine Does Not Support Capital Punishment." The Death Penalty. Ed. Jenny Cromie and Lynn M. Zott. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 13 Feb. 2014)

“Many families of victims, too, are hopeful of seeing an end to the death penalty, feeling that no punishment can bring back their loved one and that it is better to forgive and hope for a change on the part of the criminal.” There is no crime that is justifiable by death. Theres an old saying “an eye for an eye makes the work blind”, if we killall the killers we ourselves are no better than the killers. Yes, executioners may have killed for a “righchus” reason but they still killed and took the life of a living human being.

The death penalty may make us think that we have eliminated a problem-but a person, even a criminal, is never a “problem” to be destroyed. There are as many degrees of guilt as there are crimes,