"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

In modern civilization, there exists the concept of punishment for committing a crime. This concept began with the earliest forms of civilization and has grown into a very organized system. Under the well-known pretense of "an eye for an eye" methods used today include electrocution, lethal injection, and the gas chamber. These methods and the principles show the inhumanity of the death penalty. Upon examination, human beings must abolish the death penalty because it is ethically wrong, kills innocent people, and does not deter murder.

Christianity and other religions provided the background for the lying down of laws in this country. A direct correlation exists between the Ten Commandments found in the bible and the Constitution of the Unite

Any innocent being easily sympathizes with another innocent being, and when the government convicts one, the other feels that they suffer the injustice as well. Everyone agrees that the death penalty holds the title for the ultimate punishment.

Those in favor of capital punishment argue that the death penalty provides the strongest deterrent to crime, because they regard death as the ultimate punishment. Research has failed to provide that executions have a bigger control effect on homicide rates than life imprisonment, in the States. At the same time, Canada, which has abolished the death penalty, find no increase in their crime rate. The death penalty deters crime in no way.

Therefore, when the courts send an innocent human being to die, it should be known as the greatest injustice done to a fellow human being. This would not occur as a problem if courts demonstrated ration

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