The Death Penalty

Who has the right to end someone’s life? This is a question we must ask ourselves continuously. With the crimes committed in this world we’ve come up with a punishment, the death penalty. A punishment only used on the most heinous offenses.

How can we be absolutely sure of someone’s conviction? We can’t. But we continue to depend on evidence, lawyers and judges for the outcome of a person’s life. What if the evidence is wrong? What if somewhere along the line someone made a mistake? Now someone else is paying for that mistake with their life.

The death penalty is legal in 38 out of 50 states in the US. That’s 76% of the US which condones this very possibly unjust practice. It is used only for ‘murder, conspiracy to commit murder and treason.’

Some of these people are innocent. They’ve been framed or perhaps even forced through blackmail to commit the crime. If you believe these people are wrong to give in to blackmail ask yourself this, what would you do? What if they had your family?

It’d be easier to have a stranger die at your hands rather than your family. These stories are unbelievable to the court and so lawyers spin lies to make their clients look innocent. If we can’t even tel the truth to the authorities then what kind of world do we live in?

One where we are terrified to reveal the truth because our lives may be in danger. I do not believe in the death penalty. It is an abuse of power. I think that there is always another story behind the one we’re told. If we decide to kill an innocent person then we’re no better than the person who committed the crime.