Why Do People Kill People Is Wrong

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Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong? Execute justice, not people. No matter what they do, there is nothing to make them worthy of the death penalty. The death penalty proves nothing, and is just an excuse to kill someone. Dick and Perry should not be sentenced to the death penalty. The death penalty is expensive, barbaric, inhumane, and it changes the society's perspective in many ways.
First of all, The death penalty is inhumane. According to an execution in 2006, Angel Nieves Diaz was executed under the lethal injection. This so-called “humane” injection took two doses and 34 minutes. The lethal injection is not the only brutal method of execution. There is also beheading, hanging, and shooting. Executing someone does not relieve the pain in the families, it only further exaggerates the idea of violence. Executing Dick and Perry will only make the situation more violent. People are people. There is no need to make the situation more violent and inhumane than it already is, especially if it does not prove and resolve actually anything.
Perry had a rough past. He was born in 1928, in Huntington Nevada. His mother, of Cherokee
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Perry’s rough past changed him throughout his life as he had no one else to turn to but Dick as his friend. Dick, being the leader, bossed Perry around because his father treated him the same. having no excusing for the crime they committed, there is no humane way to kill someone, no matter what they did. Capital punishment overall is expensive. The death penalty is just an excuse to kill someone, and proves nothing. It causes so much pain and trauma on the families , so why would we just want to cause more and traumatize society? The death penalty is expensive, barbaric, inhumane, and it changes the society's perspective in many ways. Dick and Perry should not be sentenced to the death

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