the death penalty
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." These are words spoken but not practiced in America, or are they? The United States does not rest its punishments on this axiom. If you rape someone, you are not raped. If you rob a store, you are not robbed in return. No, you receive prison time, or something to that manner. Why is the act of murdering any different? Is killing a person really the way to teach one a lesson? A murderer, by any means, does not deserve to live in any society. But what does murdering them do? Nothing. It does not save money, it does not teach others a lesson, and has not been proven to be a deterrent."Twenty-three innocent people have been mistakenly executed this century" (Guilty 1). According to some death penalty supporters, killing prisoners is the only way to ensure that they will never commit a crime again. A state policy of executing prisoners, however, reflects several false assumptions. Unlike imprisonment, the death penalty entails the inherent risk of judicial errors, which can never be corrected. Who lives and whom dies may be decided by factors that have nothing to do with a case: errors, misunderstandings, or different interpretations of
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