Every person is born with the essential right to live therefore, no one has the right to take their life away from them. Our society believes that if someone has taken the life of another human being, that they should have their life taken away from them as well. If society continues this cycle, the ever growing rate of murder will never end. The death penalty should not exist in America today. In Hugo Adam Bedau’s essay “An Abolitionist's Survey of the Death Penalty in America Today” he focuses on attacking the death penalty. Bedau describes the value of life that a human has and how capital punishment is a violation of their right to live. Bedau argues that “the state has no right to kill any of its prisoners”(31), because “the death penalty