Jonathan Osinga
Mrs. Catrini
ENC 1101-22 10465
30 November 2015
Death Penalty Essay A man named Jared Kay was out one night and was dealing with multiple personal stresses. Jared is a very mentally unstable man who deals heavily with anger issues along with other various problems. On the night of February 19th, 2002, Jared was driving in pickup truck when he felt the sudden urge to kill. Jared, driving on a dirt road in the middle of Arkansas, came across a small wooden cabin that housed the Franklin’s. Jared had not one clue who he was going in to kill. All Jared was thinking was kill. He walked into the house with a shotgun and opened fire on every member of the family and then left. Only the daughter survived this tragic event. Jared was …show more content…
The inhumanity of the entire process. No one person should ever have the decision of taking another person’s life. People have proven to have been able to recover from their wrong doings. When a person’s chance is taken away from them how can they ever learn? Now of course there are those cases where an individual cannot be saved. But that one person that can be, wouldn’t you want to give that person his chance? In a religious view of the matter no one should have the ability to play God and take someone’s life. Death sentences are imposed in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment. Countless prisoners have also transformed their lives, in spite of the horrific conditions behind prison bars that they are forced to endure. Executing those individuals or condemning them to die in prison denies their ability to fully participate and contribute in
Mrs. Catrini
ENC 1101-22 10465
30 November 2015
Death Penalty Essay A man named Jared Kay was out one night and was dealing with multiple personal stresses. Jared is a very mentally unstable man who deals heavily with anger issues along with other various problems. On the night of February 19th, 2002, Jared was driving in pickup truck when he felt the sudden urge to kill. Jared, driving on a dirt road in the middle of Arkansas, came across a small wooden cabin that housed the Franklin’s. Jared had not one clue who he was going in to kill. All Jared was thinking was kill. He walked into the house with a shotgun and opened fire on every member of the family and then left. Only the daughter survived this tragic event. Jared was …show more content…
The inhumanity of the entire process. No one person should ever have the decision of taking another person’s life. People have proven to have been able to recover from their wrong doings. When a person’s chance is taken away from them how can they ever learn? Now of course there are those cases where an individual cannot be saved. But that one person that can be, wouldn’t you want to give that person his chance? In a religious view of the matter no one should have the ability to play God and take someone’s life. Death sentences are imposed in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment. Countless prisoners have also transformed their lives, in spite of the horrific conditions behind prison bars that they are forced to endure. Executing those individuals or condemning them to die in prison denies their ability to fully participate and contribute in