What Is The Death Penalty Morally Wrong

Everybody believes in the death penalty. We just differ on whether the killer should die, or his next innocent victim. Even killers believe in the death penalty when they are taking away the life of an innocent person. When someone is sentenced to the death penalty the world is rid of a murderer, but a family is rid of a husband, wife, father, son or daughter. Even if someone is a close family member, if they have purposefully murdered one or more innocent people they deserve the death penalty. “... Nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” (U.S Constitution), This is the text of the 8th amendment. Some say the death penalty violates this amendment because killing a person who is believed to have done wrong is very cruel and unusual, however if someone has killed intentionally killed innocent people it is the justice of the victim's family to see that the murderer gets what they deserve. Meaning they killed someone so they get the death penalty as the punishment of their consequences. "...Our recent research shows that each execution carried out is correlated with about 74 fewer murders the following year…” (Michael Summers, “ProCOn.org”). Having the death penalty legal is important because it causes the number of murders yearly worldwide to go
The risk that a judge or jury could determine an innocent person guilty and could sentence them to the death penalty. However the court system in the U.S is very good in finding evidence in cases and almost a hundred percent of the makes the correct verdict. “...That would make the error rate .027 percent — or, to put it another way, a success rate of 99.973 percent.” (Samuel Gross, National Geographic.) Which means that rarely ever is an innocent person accused guilty. Which also eliminates the need to worry over a person who is sentenced to the death penalty being