ARTICLE #5 (WRITING)

Article # 5

Death Penalty

     Death penalty is not something new; it was used many centuries ago for different crimes. So, it was cruel and it is still something cruel now. The opinions about that are divided, there are some people who think no one has the right to take the life of another person because there are other options to pay the crimes. In addition, others thinks that the person who commit terrible crimes, they deserve the cruelest death.

     On the other hand, many bad people often has made terrible things such as rapes and murders and for that reason deserve the death penalty, but the problem is that the death penalty has been applied to innocent people because the justice system is never 100% correct. According the investigation of Hamilton (2006)

Judges and juries can convict the innocent, as we know from the case of Donald Marshall, jailed for more than a decade for a murder he did not commit. Most crimes end up with criminals serving jail time. Sometimes people turn up innocent. Because they were only sent to jail and not sentenced to death their sentence can be reversed. A death penalty is irreversible. The jury is also a factor in determining penalty.

     Besides if they are guilty it is better that they suffer all their lives locked up in a jail than to send them to rest with the death. According to Bible (n.d.) the law in the Old Testament ordered the death crimes such as murder (exodus 21:12), kidnapping (Exodus 22: 19) adultery (Levitical 20:10), homosexuality (Levitical 20: 13), prostitution and rape (Deuteronomy 22: 23-24). However, God was often merciful when the death penalty should be applied for example: David commit adultery and was a murderer and God did not take his life because God have an infinite degree.

      In conclusion, the death penalty is unjust and morally wrong. When someone murders someone else, the correct punishment is not to murder him or her, but to try and help them. We don’t steal from the thieves, or rape the rapists, therefore, the death penalty should be removed of the countries where is approved.