do not understand why all the gun violence. They also can not find an explanation why the death rate is sky high. So many lives are getting taken away because of this capital punishment. There has been at least 2,466 death sentences, some countries have public executions when one is sentenced to death row. How can a person have the right to show off a person's death to other people?. Wives, kids, mothers, and fathers witnessing their love one get put to death is traumatizing to all, The justice system has no care for people or their families. They believe this is a fair punishment for a murderer or anyone who had committed a terrible but they took a life or several lives and that's not okay but what example do the government set for the people who believe in their choices and opinions to kill another human because of the their wrong doings?. Ohio has been the talk because of the crime rate, the death rate, etc. But they don´t count all of the humans the government has killed or the people they have locked away waiting for their death. The death penalty also waste so much of the taxpayer funds just because the amount of time the prisoners have spent on death row, it's a complete waste of time. Civilized countries have banned the death penalty. Also along with 18 U.S states. According to Commondreams.org, has said that the death penalty is a totalitarian. They feel that the death penalty causes more violence and crimes. They believe the death penalty also carry a racist factor as well because african americans were most likely to be sentenced to death unlike whites. The death penalty has been proven to be way more expensive than a life sentence. Putting a person on a life sentence instead of death row will save the U.S hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Only then would the U.S be able to spend the surplus of money on things that the country would benefit from. There's more than enough violence in the world today and humans are being killed everyday. The blacks and the whites can go out and murder someone but the justice system can just sentence them to death sentence and they go home to their families after they just killed another citizen of the United States. The justice system and the government has too much power and they abused the choice of abolishing the death penalty. According to Mary Meehan, there are over 1000 state prisoners are on death row, she also tells a story about a man name Earl Charles who spent over three years on Georgia's death row for a murder he didn't commit. A lot of people are executed in the United States who were layered cleared from confession of the people who actually committed the crime. But the sad part is that an innocent person is now gone for another person's poor actions. No one deserve this type of sentencing because of the affect they have on people under the ruling of the government.
Everyone has the right to live and a human life is way more valuable even the worst murderers. They say murderers forfeit their human life for murdering another human. But how can that be if the justice system can kill? That's means their forfeiting their life as well. The most common argument against the death penalty is the innocent people who are killed and the justice system makes mistakes all the time. By taking away a criminal's life you are not teaching the people of the U.S that killing is absolutely ok; just because you are apart of the government does not mean that it’s ok for the death penalty to be enforced. The government tries to lead with an iron fist enforcing that murder is not acceptable. But will continue to enforce the unfairness of the death penalty. Think of the family of the convicted criminals; think of their families. Even though people may feel they deserve to be killed still does not mean that the death penalty of a criminal is acceptable. Therefore concluding my opinion on the death penalty is to stand against the death penalty.
The death penalty is the killing of a criminal in return to the crimes they've committed.The death penalty creates a clash between federal laws; when the law says to commit a murder is against law. Therefore for that to be considered a federal law the government would have to rethink that law considering that the death penalty is also taking away someone's life. Also not only is the government allowing to take someone's life are they allowing witness of the death penalty as it's being implemented. Traumatizing the criminals loved ones
forever. Citizens of the the United States don't take this serious because the government makes them think it's okay for them to kill another person because they committed a very bad crime. The death penalty is cruel and unusual a punishment and their going against this right for all humans on earth. They kill people in three different ways basically giving them a choice of how they want to die. Over the years people have been let in and out of person from death row and others never made it out. The families take the losses and have to live through the whole process with their love one. According to BBC, they feel that everyone has the right to live and the justice system handle their decisions in a injustice manner.
As a final thought, the death penalty should be abolished to save the lives of our people. The justice system see a person as a killer and believe their no longer consider human so they sentence them death. Hundreds of lives are getting taken away because of this capital punishment and its affecting everyone