Romell Broom's Argument Against The Death Penalty

In 1984, Romell Broom was sentenced to death because of kidnapping, raping, and then murdering a 14 year old girl. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection, and the execution attempt didn't happen until 2009. He was then injected at least 18 times before the execution attempt was stopped by the governor. Broom said that the pain was so bad he cried and screamed. His lawyers argued that he should be taken off death row, but he was left on death row (Jabali-Nash). The death penalty shouldn’t be legal because it isn't ethical. I believe this because the criminal isn't always executed, many executed criminals are innocent, the death penalty costs more than life in prison, many ways of execution take a long time, some ways of execution …show more content…
If a criminal is sentenced to life in prison, at least their family can still visit them if they want to. Also, if criminals just received life in prison, their case could be reviewed and they might be proven innocent during that time. Life in prison could also benefit the people. If the criminal was sentenced to death, we would be giving in to the criminal and making it so he/she doesn't have to do the same thing in prison over and over every day for the rest of their life and face monotony. But, if they did serve life in prison, some people might be glad to know that the criminal might be extremely bored, especially if they didn't get any time taken off their sentence for being good in prison. This connects to my argument because it would better for the criminal and for the people who dislike the criminal.
The death penalty is ethical because criminals who do bad enough things, deserve the death penalty.
The story of Romell Broom, a man who survived 18 lethal injection attempts and is still living, is just one of many. Do we really want a world where part of the population goes down just because of the death penalty? With our help, we can try and stop the death