Thou Shall Not Kill
Thou shall not kill. To the normal person this might just sound like another quote your grandfather would say but to the more enlightened they will notice this to be out from the bible. It is one of the 10 commandments. Although you might ask in a society that no longer bases its rules and regulations on the bible, why does a simple quote like this bear any significance. Well I believe that as a country under God it would be our rightful obligation to take a few ideas to heart so that we may truly show the world how a real country under God presents itself, and how it comes about its daily problems such as homicide, and the death penalty. In history of the United States an innumerable amount of people have lost their lives to the death penalty. Upon this their have also been many to lose their lives for no reason. Many who were clearly by all means, hands down not guilty, however thanks to this wonderful system which we have they were still put to death. In the past century their have been 23 people who were found to be mistakenly executed. There are even more however we just haven't taken the time to look into this matter so if there was a mistake we could simply hide it. This is by no means a light matter. A human life is s
The northeast accounts for 1% of all executions however we also have the lowest murder rate. Why make 2 rather than 1 family feel the pain of losing someone when it can be prevented. But life imprisonment on the other hand costs a menial 500 to 600 thousand dollars. It is simply a heinous crime to tell anyone to kill someone else and because we have been conditioned to take it as a norm we simply don't see it anymore. If this were the case I can easily say that all the tyrants, and miscreants this world has come to know are innocent. There is nothing you can tell me to discount this fact. When people say that families only feel closure when they see the person who they think took their loved ones life die I feel that then you are no better. You are as much guilty as I am and will be held accountable one day. The average murder rate per 100,000 population in 1997 among death penalty states was 6.
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