Dead Man Walking: An Argument Against The Death Penalty

The death penalty is an issue that consistently stands today in a country like Spain for two reasons, cultural and social dependence on the United States, and moreover, terrorism as a national problem that sometimes pushes much of public opinion in the debate on the death penalty.

The act of convicting a person cease to exist (death) at the hands of justice and can be in several ways: running with guns (the only form of punishment that was in effect in our country), electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection and still in force in some countries in the Middle East, hanging is the way the Criminal Code defines the term death penalty.

The death penalty is not an abstract concept. Means causing such severe trauma and a human body that make life

The Human Rights Procurator Julio Arango said: "I think we all have an obligation to tell what happened: his arms were bleeding everywhere." The execution was broadcast live: the audience could hear the mother and the three children of Manuel Martinez Coronado sobbing in the observation room as the execution took place.

I would like to analyze the movie Dead Man Walking; we can divide the movie or the characters inside the movie in two opposite sides, people who want the death penalty and people who don’t want

People also help Sister Prejean in their struggle against the state and against conviction, are the lawyer who makes the last arguments before the courts in the hope they see the condemned, as a person, as someone human, and will forgive so life is also very important as the pastor that connects to that lawyer with Sister Prejean. However ecclesiastical prison counselor Louisiana is unclear, at least in my opinion, which is against the death penalty because it does not approve of the protagonist takes over the condemned in his last days, nor wants to be her spiritual