Should The Government Have The Right To Live Or Die?

The government has the power to choose who of their citizen gets to live or die. When you think about taking a life away from someone it’s never moral or acceptable in this time. What we do know is the government has been taking multiple lives away from their people. Even in The Declaration of Independence, they promised to protect the lives of their citizen, yet the government has been taking the lives of their citizen in two different ways. Firstly the government drafts people in a war. Secondly, the government has taken their citizen life away with the death penalty. The government force their citizens to leave their homes, jobs, and family. The government allows citizens like
Many innocent people are put to death under the death penalty like In the article A Dad was executed for death of his three girls. Now a letter cast more doubts, it stated that the “death penalty opponents, Willingham case is among those that comes closest to providing the first time in modern era capital punishment that an innocent person has been put to death in the United States” (possibly 2). Just like many other cases like Willingham, this statement proves that innocent people are put to death for a crime they did not even commit. When the government kills an innocent person from a crime they did not commit. The government are taking another innocent persons lives away almost as if it was nothing. Nothing says injustice or fair treatment from the government then taking an innocent person life away. Innocence, is one of the reason why the government has no right to take someone life
People who volunteered to fight for their country who knows the risk of dying but still willing to fight are the only person who should be able to fight in the war. You can't force people into going to a war they aren't willing to fight in. the government is taking away people lives, family, jobs, and living a normal life. War is never easy as people in the world stated that “war is nasty, war is fun, war makes you a man: war makes you dead” (O Brien 67). The government shouldn't put random people at risk because they think a draft would be fair. The government shouldn’t put random people at risk because they think a draft would be fair. The government wants people to think that the draft is fair and democratic, yet picking random innocent people to go into a place they never been to, and putting them under death is not