Death Penalty Is Too Harsh
The Death Penalty is Too Harsh Many people may be aware there is a punishment for convicts known as the death penalty, also known as capital punishment. This penalty allows the state to put a convicted man or woman to death by: lethal injection, lethal gas, electrocution, or a firing squad. For many years protestors have been pushing for states to abolish the ability of sentencing someone to death for committing a crime. The death penalty has always been one of the most debated issues in the United States. As our country grows older and wiser, evidence clearly points to the fact that the death penalty is not a good solution. The death penalty is too harsh and should be abolished.
There is no question that killing another person is one of the most heinous crimes that one can commit, but the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime. It is an example of double standards where the legal system tells someone that taking a life is wrong but then says that they are going to kill that someone because it is a legal punishment, this is also known as the eye-for-an-eye system where if someone hits someone, the person hits them back. How nice, we can all reform to being primitive. This is not okay and should be stopped immediately. No one has the right to take another’s life. God is the only being in this universe that is able to make that decision. It is unacceptable that we are still advocating the death penalty in the 21st century.
A reason to abolish this penalty is that the sentence is not limited to the “worst of the worst”, meaning the people who receive the death penalty are not always the worst criminals. People who have gone on killing sprees are the people who actually deserve it, not the people who killed one person. The convicts who have committed one murder should only be able to serve twenty-five to life without the possibility of parole, and not be able to receive the death penalty. An example of an unlawful sentencing happened almost a year
There is no question that killing another person is one of the most heinous crimes that one can commit, but the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime. It is an example of double standards where the legal system tells someone that taking a life is wrong but then says that they are going to kill that someone because it is a legal punishment, this is also known as the eye-for-an-eye system where if someone hits someone, the person hits them back. How nice, we can all reform to being primitive. This is not okay and should be stopped immediately. No one has the right to take another’s life. God is the only being in this universe that is able to make that decision. It is unacceptable that we are still advocating the death penalty in the 21st century.
A reason to abolish this penalty is that the sentence is not limited to the “worst of the worst”, meaning the people who receive the death penalty are not always the worst criminals. People who have gone on killing sprees are the people who actually deserve it, not the people who killed one person. The convicts who have committed one murder should only be able to serve twenty-five to life without the possibility of parole, and not be able to receive the death penalty. An example of an unlawful sentencing happened almost a year