Why we have the death penalty is very puzzling question to me. Personally I believe the death penalty is a hypocritical decision. The law states that it's wrong to commit murder yet a judge or a jury has the power to put a person to death. If murder is against the law then why do the courts feel it's necessary to kill a human being? I'm not saying that what Jack Ronald Jones did was right and he doesn't deserve any punishment. I'm saying that the punishment is quite foolish. I could never buy the concept of The Code of Hammurabi: "an eye for an eye." The death penalty, much like suicide is just an easy way of dealing with a problem. As I flip the coin and look on the other side I wonder what I would do if someone I knew was murdered in the way

Some crimes and murders are gruesome and the guilty deserve a heavy punishment. Life in prison seems like a bad enough punishment to me, to know that you will die in jail and never get to enjoy the privilege of freedom ever again. A life sentence and rehabilitation are a more rational form of punishment and more practical way of spending money than to waste it on an execution. Solving a problem is a better way to deal with it than just killing the problem.

One night I happened to come across a very interesting and engaging story on Dateline, a news program. A young man murdered a woman's father in his home. Instead of her asking for the killer to be put to death she fought to keep the young man from sitting on death row. I was thunderstruck, and as I watched I was speechless. This woman was, in my eyes, truly amazing and fully understood how pointless the death penalty really is. In the end the killer received life in prison, which to me is a very suitable punishment for the crime. I hope I would do the same if I were in her shoes. The woman obviou

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