Outcry Against Injustice
The world is a mess of brokenness, evil and injustice, but it would never understand what true evil is if it did not see its own failure at perfection. The injustices that follow may be overlooked many times for things that are perhaps more important, but if people tried to fix what they could, then the world will, in small steps, become a better place. People make this world what it is without realizing that they will be the ones who have to live in it. Live for what is right and maybe the world will follow.
The saying “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the world eyeless and toothless,” (Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof) shows accurately the flawed ideas within the death penalty. This injustice was not put in place to correct …show more content…
“67-year-old Vernon Madison, who is legally blind, incontinent, and unable to walk independently, and suffers from vascular dementia caused by strokes that have left him with no memory of the offense for which he was sentenced to death,” (Death Penalty Information Center). The death penalty sentences the elderly and the ill of mind to have their lives destroyed. This is killing someone for what they have done should not be allowed as a criminal sentence. The government may do such a thing in an orderly fashion, but it ends up being similar to an honor killing. It should scare America, as a nation, that its government has the power to take citizen’s lives. If it is a power that the people most certainly do not have any allowance of, then the government should not be permitted it either. DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham stated, “the public is torn between wanting to punish [them]
The world is a mess of brokenness, evil and injustice, but it would never understand what true evil is if it did not see its own failure at perfection. The injustices that follow may be overlooked many times for things that are perhaps more important, but if people tried to fix what they could, then the world will, in small steps, become a better place. People make this world what it is without realizing that they will be the ones who have to live in it. Live for what is right and maybe the world will follow.
The saying “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the world eyeless and toothless,” (Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof) shows accurately the flawed ideas within the death penalty. This injustice was not put in place to correct …show more content…
“67-year-old Vernon Madison, who is legally blind, incontinent, and unable to walk independently, and suffers from vascular dementia caused by strokes that have left him with no memory of the offense for which he was sentenced to death,” (Death Penalty Information Center). The death penalty sentences the elderly and the ill of mind to have their lives destroyed. This is killing someone for what they have done should not be allowed as a criminal sentence. The government may do such a thing in an orderly fashion, but it ends up being similar to an honor killing. It should scare America, as a nation, that its government has the power to take citizen’s lives. If it is a power that the people most certainly do not have any allowance of, then the government should not be permitted it either. DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham stated, “the public is torn between wanting to punish [them]