deserve, and letting a serial killer take the easy way out by death is definitely not justice! In proving this, it is stated that guilt is a painful emotion that occurs and takes effect when a person does something they know is wrong, and though these people a sick enough to kill, they are still people, therefore guilt still affects them. With the death penalty they are ridding these people from having to deal with that feeling at all. We are freely taking that debt off of their shoulders, so that they do not have to sit and suffer while it eats away at them. We let them go free and simple by just turning out their lights.
It is also said that criminals seek suicide when they want to end the conscious experiences like shame, guilt, anger, and fear. This again proves that the death penalty is the easy way out because it saves them the effort of having to do it themselves. They already seek
for death and we just make it easy by providing it for them instead of putting them in prison for the rest of their life to suffer.
Did you know that two fourths of criminals out there kill to avoid arrest or prison? This tells us that criminals find prison worse, and if we are trying to give them what they deserve why
are we not giving them the worst? Why are we giving them what they want... death?
The death penalty should be banished! Not only because it is not providing them with proper justice, but also because what right do we have to take a man or woman’s life innocent or
not.
innocent or not. Who are we to punish someone for taking a life if we are going to do the same! Hypocrite in the act, we are! Taking a life as did he! Thinking in our mind that it is justice, believing in our
hearts that it is okay, and even encouraging and thriving on the thought that this man will be gone forever; are we not the same as him, no better!
In addition to this not being right humanely, is taking a man’s life not cruel? Yes he has done wrong but, by taking his life for it they are no better! Amendment 8 of our constitution protects us from cruel punishments. Is this not cruel? Yes he did wrong, but he is still human, a
son, a husband, a brother. Punish him and show him right! Do not take his life and do wrong with him.
So I say again, the death penalty should be banished. When was it right to take one’s life, innocent or not, okay? When did “justice” become letting someone off the hook, to take the easy way out, through death. It is time to stop this madness and protest against it.