Each year in many countries around the world people are murdered in the name of “justice”. But can justice really include a sanitised form of revenge? Many people are for the death penalty regardless of what it actually is.
A major way that the death penalty is flawed is shown in the amount of innocent people who are sentenced to death. In the U.S.A alone since 1973 130 innocent people have been sentenced to death(1) and in the last two years evidence has come up that indicates four men previously thought to be guilty may have actually been innocent and put to death(3). The death penalty is supposed to protect innocent people from killers, instead it murders them. And these are the people who have been discovered to be innocent! What about the ones who were not so lucky? A recent example of this is Richard Glossip a man who was sentenced to death based on a corrupt statement with no other evidence to prove him guilty (5). Is this something you think should be happening in 2015? A society where normal people are killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or maybe they can not afford good legal support so they get the death penalty compared to someone who may be able to afford a good lawyer and only get life. The fact of how rich you are to determine whether you live or die is not right, you must agree.
Another pressing issue associated with the death penalty is the morals behind it. It teaches society that if someone has done something wrong you could just murder