Bright’s arguments against capital punishment include: states that sentence people to death, capital punishment does not serve a purpose, and civilized societies do not engage in such activities. Beginning with states that sentence people to death, it is based on things like mistaken eyewitness identifications, false confessions, failure of turnover evidence, and more (CITATION). This happens in many cases but some people are sentenced to death instead of life imprisonment with parole. However, this happens because of the incompetence of their court-appointed lawyers, their race, or the race of their victim (CITATION). The next argument, is capital punishment does not serve a purpose. Capital punishment doesn’t deter crime because the North
