Christopher Schuhmacher once said “Serving a life sentence in prison feels like a long and arduous journey towards a freedom that is not guaranteed to be there once you arrive.”. The death penalty is an issue that has both sides missing a possible solution that will solve the majority of the problem. one side thinks that that the death penalty is morally wrong while the other thinks that it is a quicker punishment than a punishment that gives you no chance of ever encountering freedom. The correct answer to this controversial issue is to not make the life altering decision for the person in question but to let the convict chose for him/herself whether to be executed or to have Life Without Parole(LWOP). The conditions of the LWOP and the death penalty all need to be taken into consideration and also the possibility of innocence. Inmates on death row have harsh living in the conditions and a drop of hope. a death row inmate by the name of anthony wrote a compelling article when he was found innocent in texas after being sentenced to death, “When I Was on Death Row, I Saw a Bunch of Dead Men Walking. Solitary Confinement Killed Everything Inside Them, We spent years locked alone in a tiny, …show more content…
If there is an execution and the person execute was or could have been innocent this would cause an uproar of protests. But if the person had the choice to be executed or not then there wouldn’t be as much of an issue. This would hopefully lower the amount of innocents killed for a crime they didn’t commit. But, the innocent people could pick the death penalty because there's a chance of parole, because of this i think that the life sentence should have the same one opportunity as death row inmates to be proven innocent. Giving the convict the choice would lower the weight on your innocence and lower the amount of innocent