I think the Death Penalty is wrong for several reasons
First of all it's against the Bible and most religious teachings. Which contradicts the political stance that EVERY execution state holds. How can you spend so much tax payer money on killing a person and still consider your self a honest to god Christian?
My second point is really more then one point. But i'll just bunch it all into one spot. What about people wrongfully convicted and charged with the death penalty? Lawyers will falsify evidence and kill you in order to win a case. Imagine being the victim of a very intelligent lawyer who is only interested in winning cases? Or being the victim of an illegal interrogation where they beat you to the point of confessing? Or what if you are simply a victim of circumstance and while all the evidence points to you being the culprit you are totally innocent? Sure life in prison isn't exactly a joy. But most people would prefer it over being executed.
Need evidence that innocent people are given the death penilty?
http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/The_Innocent_and_the_Death_Penalty.phphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_executionWayne Felker, a convicted rapist, is also claimed to have been an innocent victim of execution. Felker was a suspect in the disappearance of a Georgia (U.S.) woman in 1981 and was under police surveillance for two weeks prior to the woman's body being found. The autopsy was conducted by an unqualified technician, and the results were changed to show the death occurring before the surveillance had begun. After Felker's conviction, his lawyers presented testimony by forensics experts that the body could not have been dead more than three days when found. A stack of evidence was found hidden by the prosecution that hadn't been shared with the defence or presented in court, including DNA evidence that might have exonerated Felker or cast doubt on his guilt. There was also a signed confession by another suspect in the paperwork, but despite all this, Felker was executed in 1996. In 2000, his case was reopened in an attempt to make him the first executed person in the US to have DNA testing used to prove his innocence after his execution.[7]
Third and lastly it costs more money to execute someone then to put them in prison for life. Meaning the only reason to execute someone is out of spite. Vengeance is not justice. By supporting the death penalty you are supporting the murder of innocent people and guilty people.
The only benefit the death penalty offers is a deterrence for people who aren't rich or famous to rape/murder people. If you happen to be popular you are completely immune to the death penalty. Hell you are almost immune to life in prison too. You might get 10 years for murdering someone then get out in 6 for good behavior if you are famous. If you are just some jerk they'll kill you like a barnyard chicken.
Quote:Some crimes are so heinous, so nasty, that only the death penalty BEGINS to make up for what they did.
Settle down judge dread.