people killing is unjust when they are doing the same thing themselves.
One of the biggest problems regarding the justice of the death penalty is the discrimination that is affiliated with it. Discrimination is a big controversy, but it being involved in the death penalty makes the problem a lot larger. When deciding to send a criminal to death row, the justice system has to be certain to be extremely unbiased. Throughout the course of United States history, there have been a total of 23 innocent people that have been sent to death by the state. They died for crimes they did not commit. It was just convenient for the courts to condemn them. All of this is considering that the U.S Justice system is not perfect and that they undergo a certain number of safe guards to ensure that only the guilty are punished.
"In 1973, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that courts were discriminating against certain classes and races of people when applying the death penalty"(the death penalty, 47). Discrimination is affiliated with th
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