Capital Punishment Analysis

Warrington 1
In an article written by Marc Hyden he states, ?Submitting the power to kill U.S. Citizens to the State is unwise considering [the] history of error and malfeasance? (1). Hyden is saying that to allow the State to determine whether someone should die or not is not a smart idea. People make mistakes; it?s what they do. But when it comes down to making a mistake about sending an innocent person to death, that is a mistake that you cannot undo or make right. In this article by Hyden, he talks about the innocent being killed by allowing the state to determine whether or not someone is put on death row, how some are being tortured due to botched executions, and how it does not deter crime as much as people like to think. To Hyden, the death penalty should be abolished because of the State having too much authority than they should, because it kills innocent people, and because there are many botched executions. To others, these things could all be satisfying to them. They support the death penalty and they want to see people die for what they did. Hyden says, ?There?s no greater authority than the power to take life, and our government currently reserves the authority to kill the citizens it?s supposed to serve? (2). This statement is heavy. The government has an extremely powerful thing over people?s heads. Although there are horrendous crimes, does that give the government the
These people may or may not have committed a heinous crime, but some of those suspects do not want to be sentenced to death because of it. In an article, David R. Dow talks about the hundred death row inmates he has defended over the last twenty years. Some ask him for appeals to be killed as soon as possible because they cannot bare a life of imprisonment until their time to die comes. He also fights very hard for his victims and although he has helped inmates get their death sentence converted to a life in prison, his clients still feel betrayed. Dow states, ?Let me be clear: most of my clients want to live. Most of them prefer a life of virtually no freedom to no life at all. But underlying this preference is a hope, however faint, they might one day get out? (2). Death row inmates are people with feelings as well. Perhaps their crime was an act of hate, hurt, spite, or just because they generally wanted to, no one wants their life taken away from them. If they did just make a mistake and not mean to they might want to get out to correct their wrong. And although their chances of that are slim to none, it does not hurt to have some glimmer of hope in a place full of