Time To Kill

“Is it Really a Time to Kill?”
Alvanti Smith
PHI: 107
Victor Reppert
September 14, 2009

To sentence someone to death for a crime is not justice. It is state sanctioned killing. Killing the accuser does not help the victims or their families. The death penalty is not deterrence to the crime. A person should have to live with his or her actions for the rest of their life.
I feel state- sanction killing is an act of revenge. If I killed someone, because they killed someone in my family I will be charged with murder. In what ways does this may the state different from me? It does not because we both acted out of revenge. State-sanction killing creates more victims and more pain. It is actually is a repeating cycle of killing and violence.
In fact many do not. Many victims’’ families are against the death penalty. According to Graverholt (2009), “the victims are dead, and no execution of the murder will make the alive.” “I’ve heard many relatives say that they could hardly wait to gain closure by the execution of the murder, but I have never heard any of them say years later that they found this closure.” “If the death penalty proponents really care so much about these relatives, I do not understand why funding for psychological support for them is so embarrassing low or missing.” In my lifetime, I have never seen anyone come back alive after their accuser execution. Killings the accuser does not help the victim or relatives in any way. “The death penalty places the focus on the legal consequences, not the human consequences.” Attention is directed on the crime and thee accused, instead of where it belongs – on the family and loved ones of the victim and on the community. (Death Penalty
Many murders do not fear the death penalty. In most case, some murders will rather be killed. In fine in the past and past crime has not declined. According to anti-death penalty web site (2009), “crime rates have not gone down. In fact, the murder rate in the US is six times that Britain and five Times that Australia.” “Neither country has the death penalty.” “Texas has twice the murder rate of Wisconsin, a state that does not have death penalty.” “Texas and Oklahoma have historically executed the most number of death row inmates, yet in 2003 their state murder rates increased and both have murder rates higher than national average (www.antideathpenatly.org).” Many people still feel the death penalty deter murder. “Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the strongest punishment available t o deter murder.”(The Death Penalty) For some reason, they feel people are less likely to kill because of the death penalty. It has been stated that many people fear death.”Certainly one of the factors which restrains some people from murder is fear or punishment and surely, since people fear death more than anything else, the death penalty is the most effective deterrent.”(Gernstein) I truly feel in today’s society people do not care about dying. You may find some case where the victim families are for the death penalty. Many victims member may feel that is will give them closure. Some people want the family