Do you feel that the death penalty is worth keeping in place or should we remove it and replace it with something else? For those of you who may not know the death penalty is a form of punishment throughout history and largely reserved for perpetrators of a killing of another person or a big enough crime that can get some people killed. Many people do not agree with this type of punishment and today I would be summarizing some author’s thoughts on this matter. In the articles the death penalty is a step back by Coretta Scott king, “Death Penalty Fails to Equal Retribution” by Anna Quindell, and death to the killers” by Mike Royko. They are all talking about the death penalty and are expressing their thoughts on the subject. Some people says
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First, he says that the death penalty is wrong, not only because it consists of stooping to the level of the killers. Second quindoline feels that the killing of one human being as punishment for the killing of another makes no sense and is inherently immoral Quindell takes a position against the death penalty as well as the other authors we will be discussing she reports peoples thoughts on Bundy and reports “I wish they`d bring him back to Lake City,`` said Tom Leach of the town where Kimberly Leach lived and died, ``and let us all have at him.`` But the death penalty does not let us all have at him in the way Leach seems to mean. What he wants is for something as horrifying as what happened to his child to happen to Ted Bundy. And that is impossible.” …show more content…
To which they know that there loved one life was not taken in vain and the killer is getting what they deserve. But secondly, he brings up the fact that our money is being used to feed the people who killed our loved ones why on the other hand he also says those who are against the death penalty they believe that we should try to study them and their thoughts which makes the killers do what they do. He also says we should protect those of society not to kill them. Then he gives contradictions to all those arguments which he makes. He feels that the “the death penalty does not deter crime” I agree with him because if that was the case then we will not have the amount of crime which we
First, he says that the death penalty is wrong, not only because it consists of stooping to the level of the killers. Second quindoline feels that the killing of one human being as punishment for the killing of another makes no sense and is inherently immoral Quindell takes a position against the death penalty as well as the other authors we will be discussing she reports peoples thoughts on Bundy and reports “I wish they`d bring him back to Lake City,`` said Tom Leach of the town where Kimberly Leach lived and died, ``and let us all have at him.`` But the death penalty does not let us all have at him in the way Leach seems to mean. What he wants is for something as horrifying as what happened to his child to happen to Ted Bundy. And that is impossible.” …show more content…
To which they know that there loved one life was not taken in vain and the killer is getting what they deserve. But secondly, he brings up the fact that our money is being used to feed the people who killed our loved ones why on the other hand he also says those who are against the death penalty they believe that we should try to study them and their thoughts which makes the killers do what they do. He also says we should protect those of society not to kill them. Then he gives contradictions to all those arguments which he makes. He feels that the “the death penalty does not deter crime” I agree with him because if that was the case then we will not have the amount of crime which we