An Argumentative Essay: The Ethics Of Capital Punishment

It is your first day as a grief counselor. Your first client is a mother who recently lost her son. She is traumatized. She feels hopeless. She feels that the community in which she lives, her society, and her government have let her down and have turned against her. Her son was coldly murdered. She witnessed his agony, his eyes looking at her eyes pleading for relief, asking for help. There is nothing more dreadful and poignant than to watch your loved one breathe his last breath. There is nothing worse than losing your loved one to murder.

While holding her hand, you listen to her story, patiently.

“Abdullah killed a man during a drug deal. He entered prison a young man with little respect for himself or society, but while in prison underwent a genuine transformation. At that time, Delaware housed its death row prisoners in general population, which gave Abdullah the opportunity to take courses and participate in activities. He started an interfaith peace group that included prisoners and members of the community; he met with juvenile delinquents warning them against getting involved in crime; he practiced his religion; he married Shakeerah, a woman he met through prison work; and most importantly, he established a loving relationship with his young son, “Little …show more content…
My religious faith has taught me that human beings have no rights to play God. I also believe in the principles of Cesare Beccaria--an Italian philosopher, politician, and criminologist who declared that no man could dispose of the life of another man. " It seems absurd to me" Cesare Beccaria says, " that the laws, which are the expression of the public will, and which execrate and punish homicide, should themselves commit one, and that to deter citizens from murder they should order a public murder.” It is not in our rights to punish murder by death, and capital punishment is not an obligation of our civil