itting the same crime seems like bloodthirsty satisfaction in the name of justice. Would you sentence are rape criminal to be raped or an arsonist to have his house burned down? Why further the loss of life by ending yet another person's? This "retribution", will never justify any action nor will it make the deceased come back.
             Many pro-death penalty also argue that if murderers are sentenced to death and executed then would be murderers will think twice before committing the crime. Most people convicted of brutal murders are not in their sound mind and more importantly not thinking " Oh I better not do this, I might get sentenced to death." Most murderers have psychological disorders or are addicted to drugs at the point of not being in control of their actions. To the murders that don't fall into either one of those categories O.J. Simpson is their patron saint. If you have enough money and a clever enough lawyer you can get away with murder.
             On the flip side, if a person cannot afford a good attorney then he could be wrongly convicted so that justice may be served and everyone else can sleep at night with a clean conscience. The death penalty is an irrevocable sentence. According to a 1987 study, 23 people who were innocent of t
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