Against The Death Penalty Reiman Summary

While evil gives us the right to punish the bad people with judgment, does it follow that we should act on this right? The death penalty system is recognized as the world's most severe punishment for offenders because it has a direct denial of the right of criminals, and depriving prisoner’s opportunity to go back and compensate the victims. Jeffrey Reiman's article "Against the Death Penalty," he begins with a concise summary of his ideas of the four points of death, and then he goes into more detail. The first point he makes: "Although the death penalty is a just punishment for some murderers, it is unfair to punish the perpetrators less stringent (reduced to a certain limit)." In his first point, he shows how the most established death penalties are weak. By doing so, he improves the idea that death just punishment for murderers; he continues shows how

Reiman said in a statement if we do not use the death penalty, it shows towards giving how the murderer is cruel. Reiman said that is the fourth point is: " though the death penalty is in principle a just penalty for a murderer, it is unjust in practice in America because it is applied in arbitrary and discriminatory ways, and thus is likely to continue into the foreseeable future" To clearly show these differences. He said that if the murderer killed a white man, he would easily get the death penalty, especially if the murder is a black man. Reiman does not only focus on display ethnic unfair, but he also pointed out that there are unfair to people who are low-income groups. In this place, he pointed out that the United States tend to have higher numbers of certain ethnic groups and a higher number of low-income individuals on death row have such a concern because it is seen as the death penalty is unjust