Opposing the Death Penalty

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Opposing the Death Penalty
According to death penalty.org the total number of death row victims in the united states who were wrongfully convicted since the 1970’s is 144. Even though most people feel that the death penalty is the right approach to someone who has committed or been accused of murder, there are those who are wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit and the process of pursuing the death penalty is far more expensive than locking someone up.
Death row is the part of a prison where those sentenced to death are confined (dictionary). Death row is said to be a way of giving closure to the families of the victim or victims who were murdered by the suspect on death row. Most families find it best to give life without parole than the death penalty for a variety of reasons. Some families feel that the long process of going back and forth to count and finding evidence on the wrong doings of the suspect that that could have been time for the families to find closure and mourn the loss of their family member. Some families feel that they will never find closure or peace within the situation wither the suspect is dead or alive, so to them there is no equity in legal execution of the suspect. There are people who believe that an eye for an eye is the right way to go. They believe that if someone takes a person’s life that it is only fair for that someone’s life to be taken in place of that other person’s life being

taken. Some see an eye for an eye to be the wrong way to go because two wrongs don’t make a right.
Capital punishment is the punishment of death for a crime; death penalty
(dictionary). Despite all the merits and all the controversy the death penalty continues t...

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...not be allowed, one because it’s unfair for one person to commit a crime that they cannot erase and get murdered by the state and for the other to possibly have a chance at a second chance, secondly no one crime should be bigger than the other so both should be treated the same. Why not just lock them up?
These crimes are the very definition of egregious. Surely, in the pre-DNA days, innocent people died, possibly, some still do where DNA is not a factor; a drive-by shooting, for instance.

Twenty years ago, support for the death penalty was extraordinary high, with eight-in-ten American’s supporting it. Public support for capital punishment increased in the years following the U.S Supreme Court ruling that the death penalty was not “cruel and unusual punishment” forbidden by the constitution
(America’s growing opposition to the death penalty).

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