They claim that it is heathenistic to permit the killing of someone by the state in front of a crowd of people. Abolitionists also say that the U.S. is hypocritical when it comes to foreign leaders murdering their own people when we do just about the same thing. They also oppose with the idea that the added legal procedures associated with capital punishment jam up the court systems. They claim that all the extra appeals, motions, hearings, briefs, etc. burn of valuable time and financial resources that could be spent on other legal matters.
Abolitionists contest that society must abandon the revenge mentality if civilization is to better evolve. They believe that the death penalty fuels a vicious cycle of violence and that retaliating simply for vengeance can only make the situation worse. They argue that
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These mistakes are not repairable as death is final and several cases have been re-examined where DNA that exonerates someone was not involved in court proceedings due to the time-period resulting in the execution of an innocent. They respond with the notion that the death penalty detracts from the sympathy of people for the pain and suffering of the families of the victims of crime and shifts the sympathy to the offender instead. Some human rights groups speak against the execution of an individual on death row gaining that individual a following in the media for sympathy with their impending death for the heinous acts they committed. They say that it is insulting to the victims’ families and makes a mockery of the heinous acts that were committed. Finally, abolitionists contend that capital punishment does not bring the victim back to life. They claim that vengeful feelings won’t repair the damage from the loss of a loved one and that only forgiveness can heal which is tough to do with a vengeful