Pope John Paul II's Views On The Death Penalty

The death penalty is a very cruel punishment that condemns the innocent to die. A death penalty is a sentence of death imposed on a convicted criminal. (Definition, 1980). It is considered an injustice due to the fact that many innocent people have been killed. The death penalty does contain people that have “committed” crimes but a majority of them are later on found innocent after being killed. People do not have to be killed to treat the world a lesson, it is morally wrong and doesn't show others anything except that they might lose everything just because the government wants to kill you.
The death penalty is unfair because it is racist, targets the poor, condemns the innocent to be killed, and fails to recognize change in a person and prohibits them from seeing

Pope John Paul II was the leader of the Roman Catholic Church for 26 years. He called for an end to the death penalty, his word exactly on the topic were "May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world." (RELIGIOUS VIEWS: Pope John Paul II's Statements on the Death Penalty, 2000). Another person was Sister Helen Prejean, she was a huge influence on the topic and took part in many events to try and stop the injustice from reoccuring, as well as even writing books about it. She was very catholic and wasn’t for people dying even if they weren’t innocent. She said “When it comes to death, and the ultimate chasm between life and death, they say, “Anything less than death is like an affront, or dishonoring the victim, because the victim was killed, so that's what we must do." That’s how the death penalty is legitimized.” (Sister Helen Prejean on the movement to end the death penalty, 2014). Overall, these people have put an enormous amount of work into saving innocent people from being