Death or Dishonored

Should the death penalty be banned in the United States or is it an appropriate form of justice? Capital punishment has being going on since we as people have formed a system between right and wrong. Its worldwide, not just limited to the United States, and comes in many different forms. Does having the death penalty in a state really change someones' state of mind to kill someone or not? What would be the case if an innocent man was executed on death row? Killing a person for killing someone else will not bring that person back, but is seen as a form of closer for the victims family. Is an eye for an eye the proper way to approach this matter, ecspecially in todays' time with everyone becoming more open and understanding. As Ghandi once said "an eye for and eye leaves the whole world blind.

I am truely on the fence on whether or not I see the death penalty as right or wrong. If someone does something wrong or illegal and are found guilty of the matter the should indeed be punished. To say its cruel to kill someone and hurt them who has hurt another person makes little since, because they should feel the pain that the person they killed felt. People are most afraid of death, so with a state having the death penalty in reality deters people from commiting capital crimes. People in our society gets what is coming to them, not always right away, but it will come back to haunt them. The cost factor could work for both sides, but it is clearly to pay to kill the person then provide for them in jail. Blacks and Hispanics are said to be over represented in capital punishment cases, they are claimed to be products of their enviorments, which maintains the idea that "poverty breeds crime".

Killing someone for killing someone is suppose to prevent someone from killing another, but what does that do for the people hurt the most? The victims family does not get their person back simply because the murder was killed. I personally would rather see the person rot in jail rather then get a free pass out of jail. Im sure most people sentenced to life in prison would rather die then years and years in prison. If the racial bias is true, then whites in the middle and upper class have a lot less to worry about then minorities of the lower class. During the case Furman V Georgia, the defense attorney stated that death row memebers were "'members of the human race as nonhumans, as objects to be toyed with and discarded", which is against the rights of citizens. The arguement could go both ways for me, each having it's own pros and cons. It is a form of justice that will be around, but I feel within the near future it will be seen as inhumane and abolished as a whole.