The Death Penalty Is Necessary

1995, at the age of 16, a child, whose name has not been open to the public, was accused of the murder of a New Orleans boy. The girlfriend of the murdered victim was present at the time of the crime, said that she “would never forget that face” as she identified the child as her boyfriend’s murderer. Two other people claimed to have seen the accused child at the scene of the crime.
Right before the murder, the accused child was recorded on camera playing basketball with his friends, also in the video there was a clock showing the current time. At the time of the murder he was receiving a ride from his coach who was giving a few boys rides home. This alibi was ignored during the court case. At the scene of the crime, when a police officer asked …show more content…
The article ponders the historical abuse of the death penalty; for instance, how the roman empire crucified Jesus and the Nazis killed millions of Jews in the form of the death penalty. A part of our constitution states that we will not be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, it is controversial but many believe that the death penalty breaks this constitutional rule. But still with this statistic 50 percent of Americans suggest the death penalty should be used as punishment for murderers. the article brings up the point that “if the premeditated killing of another human is wrong, then how does the premeditated killing of the murderer make it right?” It states that the taking of a human life is immoral but if a person is taking lives then they have made themselves deserving of crime they have committed to be done upon them. As the authors say the punishment is a kind of revenge delivered from human kind against the one who broke the biggest …show more content…
I do not like how they describe it but the general idea is mostly right. After a certain point of crime severity, the punishment is just to remove people because of the possibility of them committing a similar crime again. In this way, we try to remove the possibility of heinous crimes because the idea of murdering would not even cross someone’s mind because they wouldn’t have examples of people committing this crime in their life. The only large difference I would want to be made to the death penalty is that there needs to be better/more concreate evidence of the crime as some people are wrongly punished for crimes they never committed. And to do a better job of being less bias with the jury as the minority is often singled out and thought to be the guilty