There are popular arguments in today's public to support the death penalty. Some say that if we kill a man sentenced to the death penalty, it costs less than to keep that inmate locked up for the rest of his life. Also, the public feels that if we show violent offenders that they will be killed if they kill another, it will make them think twice about killing. Finally, people feel if someone is convicted of murder, they should be sentenced to the death penalty.

We are contradicting ourselves when we kill people for the fact that they killed another. Who are we to decide whether or not we can take a person's life? From religion's view, the use of the death penalty is morally wrong and against people's human rights. Killing a person is irreversible, and that person can never be brought back. Sometimes capital punishment has taken the lives of innocent people. For example, in Britain an innocent man was hung for the murder of three women. After he was hung, another man came forth and admitted to the murder of the women (Tabak 80). The man that was hung can never be brought back and died a disrespectable way.

The next big argument is that the death penalty is a form of deterrence. The proposal is that knowing you will be executed if you choose to kill another will make you change your mind. Many studies have been done to attempt to prove this belief. However, all the evidence taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more

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