Anti Capital Punishment Essay
Anit Capital Punishment Essay
Some people might agree with the death penalty. Families get devastated when someone they love and care about has died. Its different when that person they care so much about has been murdered or killed. People tend to hate that person and have the urge to do just about anything to them in order for them to suffer, which causes us to take, revenge on them. This matter has lead to the death penalty. This is a punishment that slowly kills the man or woman that has committed the crime. Why should we have pity on those who choose to kill? If they felt powerful enough to kill, then we should be able to do the same to them. Whatever their reason is that they choose to kill they should be punished someway, somehow.
However, a strong case can be made against the death penalty. We have no right to take someone’s life away from them even though they have committed a tragic crime. I believe the federal government should realize they are not preventing anything by their doing this.
Reasons why people are sentenced to the Death Penalty
Most of the people that have been sentenced to the death penalty have committed murder. The race and the gender has been a big problem. People think it unfair and unequal. Which I personally agree. There has been many more males sentenced to death row then there have been females. There have been 4 white females and 153 white males. Three black females and 185 black males. There were no Hispanic females and there were 100 Hispanic males. For other there was 0 females and 5 males due to The Texas Department Of Criminal Justice. (http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/racial.htm) Texas Department Of Criminal Justice)
Trying To Forgive And Forget
I know that it’s hard to forgive someone that has killed your loved one but it’s even harder to try to forget about it. We have to remember that we are just human and we do make big mistakes. I just think it’s easier to live your life looking forward then looking back at the bad things in your life. If someone spends there time thinking about this matter, then we will forever be cold hearted and live...