Taking Someone Else Life Into Our Own Hands Is Unfair

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Since 1976 there has been a total of 1437 executions in the United states. It is legal in 31 states, that leaves only 19 states where it is illegal. Is it really effective? Should we be taking someone else life into our own hands? What if they are wrongly convicted? Taking someone else life into our own hands is not fair. We are not God we cannot decide who lives and who dies. For example, let’s say that that John Doe kills Mary one night while she walking home. He followed her home and raped and murder her. Shouldn’t he have to rot in jail for the rest of his life and think about what he has done. If you give him the death penalty, then it is over quick and he doesn’t have to sit and think about his actions. We shouldn’t make it easier on them, make that son of gun sit in a jail cell and be miserable. As long as the death penalty has been around there has been probably countless victims who were innocent. Those people never got to live a full life and because of the courts they missed out on grandchildren, a career all those things we love about life. Do you really want that blood on your hands for killing a person who just at the wrong place at …show more content…

So let’s say you were the juror on the John Doe case and you are convinced that Mary is lying but all of the other juries think he is guilty. You are in the room for hours trying to change their minds and see things from your point of view, they just aren’t agreeing with you. So you finally cave and say he is guilty so you can go home. After all you have children and a home to take care of, you can’t keep coming to the court room everyday all day your life is too busy for that. So he is found guilty and executed. Three months later new evidence is found and its proves that Mary was making up the whole story. You just send a man to be executed when he wasn’t guilty. Could you honestly live with yourself after

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