people, to show that killing is wrong?" Suddenly I thought about what I had

read. I am against the death penalty as a solution to crime. Capital

punishment is a sign of a deep sickness in our civilization. Execution is an

act of violence, but you cannot use violence to end violence. The death

penalty is not an effective way to punish a criminal. It is used by the

powerful to pretend that violent crime is under control, and being disposed of,

but in reality the death penalty disposes of the poor, the uneducated, and the

minorities in the world. Even states that use the death penalty seem to have

a higher number of homicides than states that do not use it. Capital

punishment has never been shown to eliminate crime more effectively than

shouldn't just execute the criminal, they should also make his life miserable.

there have been more that seventy-five documented cases of wrongful

Prisons should supply the bare necessities and nothing else. One solution is

the tape to see if there was anything on the other side. Only then did he hear

day of the murder he was at a fish fry with his friends and relatives, many of

On March 3, 1993, the County District Attorney joined the defense in a

are many other cases of mistaken conviction and execution that occur and

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