all states have come to agree that the death penalty is the best way to stop crime

completely. "The bottom line is, one method of execution is just as brutal and as barbaric

as the next," says Mr. Breedlove of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

This comes straight from the mouth of a member of a national organization against

capital punishment. The American Heritagec Dictionary of the English Language, Third

Edition defines execution as The act or an instance of putting to death or being put to

So if Breedlove's words hold true, then what he believes is that someone going

out and killing someone is barbaric. In a sense isn't that what he's saying, that one way of

killing someone is just as bad as any other. So if he finds this so barbaric, why doesn't he

do something about it? Many people who are against capital punishment are only

thinking of the criminal and how cruel it is for them. But, shouldn't we think of the

families that are broken apart now because of the merciless acts of these criminals. Think

of Susan Smith, how she knowingly drove her car off into a lake with her

see them. Or we are not like over in Europe where they would execute the criminal in

bad for her to be in that cell alone because of her depression, but does it justify her

rapidly becoming uncivilized. Some of the things that happen on our streets and in

you'll have to pay for your crimes that you commit. As Robert Matthews a journalism for

longer sit and let our lives be terrorized. No longer can we sit back and watch criminals

is a moral outrage. Supporters see it as undermining a key advantage of the death penalty

would say yes, but me I have the notion that in some cases yes, but in others no. I say this

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