Summary Of The Death Penalty Should Remain Legal By Zachary Nichol

The death penalty and how it ties into the morality of the American government is one of the most highly debated topics in America. The death penalty is highly controversial as it falls into deciding if humans should legally judge whether someone should live or die. In Ed Pilkington’s “America’s death penalty divide: why capital punishment is getting better, and worse'' they argue that capital punishment is wrong in the way that it is immoral and is not immune from the bias that comes from America's institutionalized racism. Contrastingly, Zachary Nichol’s “The Death Penalty Should Remain Legal” takes the opposite approach to the death penalty argument and speaks of how the constitution supports the right to use capital punishment.

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Zachary Nichol uses the United States Constitution as supporting evidence for his argument. More specifically, Nichol uses a piece from the 5th amendment “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.” This piece of evidence itself is more moderate than strong considering that instead of caring if capital punishment is supported by law or constitution, the opposing side tends to find more issues in the morals behind it or institutionalized racism and its relation to rates of incarceration/capital punishment. Nichol doesn’t forget to include the questions the opposing side has over the questionable morality behind capital punishment, he argues that at some point it’s better to put a person's life behind to save a plethora of others in the future. Zachary Nichol does seem to be right leaning because he has some right-winged interpretations of the constitution and ideals of capital

In the interview, they discuss how the Jury decided the fate of the Parkland shooter and chose to let him live and serve the rest of his life in prison. Families were outraged by this decision and believed that the mass shooter didn’t deserve to continue living amongst other people after murdering 17 people and injuring several others. “If not now the death penalty, then when” one teen comments during Today's News interview, her outrage being a shared emotion between her and several other interviewees. The evidence is highly relevant to issues of the present in the way that it directly addresses the topic of school shootings in America and how far it’ll go before punishment becomes more