The way we view ourselves as human beings relies on our morality and compassion towards others. Our ability to forgive those who have done us wrong and seek proper justice has become a standard. Capital punishment manages to defy all these standards. Wasting government funding on executing already captured criminals wastes millions of taxpayers dollars every year. Reverting back to the usage of the death penalty makes us no better than our ancestors and prove that we have learned nothing over this long and violent period of time. John Bessler, an attorney and professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School, argues that the use of the death penalty provides a violent example of how to punish criminals in an already too violent society.
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Susannah Sheffer, a writer and project director for the Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization Murder’ Victims Families for Human Rights, interviews multiple families of victims whose demons had been sentenced to death. Although every case is different in its own right, the overall message remains the same. An eye for an eye is no longer an effective way to handle these cases because somewhere in this world is a family grieving over the death of their son or daughter by the hands of the death penalty. The sense of loss and regret of these families remains the same regardless of which side of the gavel you sit on. The interviews with the families all share the same opinion in opposition to the death penalty and make a claim to try and help these people rather than simply executing them. Taking another life will never bring a previous one back and society has begun to open up to this revolutionary idea (Insert in-text citation …show more content…
Every time we take a life in the name of justice we are embracing the same demons that possessed the convicted. This drastic action affects us from our minds to our souls. Demonstrating violence only causes more violence and society suffers as a whole. What kind of message is sent to society if we display that these criminals get to take the easy way out instead of rotting in a cell for the rest of their miserable lives. We must display that we are better then them by taking the more difficult instead of acting on our gut primal instinct. All life is
Susannah Sheffer, a writer and project director for the Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization Murder’ Victims Families for Human Rights, interviews multiple families of victims whose demons had been sentenced to death. Although every case is different in its own right, the overall message remains the same. An eye for an eye is no longer an effective way to handle these cases because somewhere in this world is a family grieving over the death of their son or daughter by the hands of the death penalty. The sense of loss and regret of these families remains the same regardless of which side of the gavel you sit on. The interviews with the families all share the same opinion in opposition to the death penalty and make a claim to try and help these people rather than simply executing them. Taking another life will never bring a previous one back and society has begun to open up to this revolutionary idea (Insert in-text citation …show more content…
Every time we take a life in the name of justice we are embracing the same demons that possessed the convicted. This drastic action affects us from our minds to our souls. Demonstrating violence only causes more violence and society suffers as a whole. What kind of message is sent to society if we display that these criminals get to take the easy way out instead of rotting in a cell for the rest of their miserable lives. We must display that we are better then them by taking the more difficult instead of acting on our gut primal instinct. All life is