Throughout the media lately, a majority of the reports are about government brutality, especially against people of minority groups, and convictions of murder cases. The death penalty is defined as punishment of execution, but the death penalty is more than a punishment, it is legalized killing. No matter where a person stands on the death penalty, one statement that people cannot make is that killing is always right. The death penalty is inhumane and should be abolished because it discriminates against human beings and oppresses the lives of the challenged, specifically those with mental illnesses.
The government claims that everyone is equal, when in reality stereotypes and discrimination always are present. In Louisiana, Ernest Knighton
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These questions theorize that Knighton was wrongfully executed because he a different pigment than the victim and the jury. Bruck further delineates with an analogy about how it did not matter who paid for the crime, “Knighton was picked out to die the way a fisherman takes a cricket out of a bait jar. No one cares which cricket gets impaled on the hook.” The cricket analogy exemplifies that the government’s legal system is random and chaotic thus presenting that citizens cannot trust a system that is arbitrary and unjust. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson, a black man, who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. Even though Lee writes her novel as fiction, it is based on real life events. She voices to the readers that even when the answer is obvious, that Tom Robinson did not commit the crime, the justice system is not always just. In Atticus’s closing argument he states “this case is as simple as black and white” (Lee 271). This application of a pun, exhibits that the case presented should never have come to court because of the solid facts that demonstrate that Tom Robinson did not commit the crime, but someone else in the courtroom did. The