Ok, I concede that this may not be the most creative title that I could have come up with, but at least it lets you know where we are going.
The fact that some states pride their use of the death penalty in America is a poverty,(there are a lot of those here).
Now most people think that it is just and fair to legally execute someone because the accused has murdered someone else.
Okay so I acknowledge the fact that what the person did was horrendous in and of itself. But how does it make it better that WE do the same thing to him/her? Neither of the lives taken are humanity’s to take. That responsibility belongs ONLY to the one who created life.
Another problem that i have heard about is the cost of keeping the prisoners on death row. People say that it is just another reason to speed up the execution process. I mean think about it. It can be pretty expensive to provide food, clothing, shelter, wages for the guards,wages for the prisoners. “What! They get wages!?” is what some may ask. That’s right, they do. I’m not sure what the exact figure is but I am pretty sure that it’s more than what they should be getting. Food is also a major expense in the Corrections department. I am sure that the prisoners could go with some lighter portions of food.
Another thing that is a major problem in prisons, notjust death row, is the gangs. Why are these even there??? I bet twenty dollars that if the prisoners were forced to do hard labor, I mean really hard labor, that they would be too tired to even worry about gangs or anything like that. But now that a bunch of groups for the “rights of prisoners” have stepped in this seems more like fiction than reality.
So to recap, the death penalty is WRONG because God created life. And he alone is to decide when you die. Second, the death penalty wouldn’t even be necessary if prisons would simplycut down on unnecessary costs and put the inmates to work.
Let me know what you think about this….
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