The abolishment of the death penalty can be explained through human beings choosing to do the right thing. If humans decide that they would like to live with proper morals, then humans will figure out that the death penalty should be abolished in the United States of America. From life’s good morals, to the cost to carry out a proper execution, the death penalty just does not seem to make any sense.
Good morals of a human being do not mean killing another human being no matter what the circumstance is. It just doesn’t make much sense for one man to kill because another one has. “…should we be killing people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong? It’s cruel and barbaric, not worthy of us.” (Dellapiana, 4) Are we really proving anybody wrong by taking the life of someone else although they have previously murdered? We would only be sinking down to the level of the original killer. It does not make us any better to kill someone even if that person is guilty of a heinous crime such as murder. We must stick to our proper morals even when we are bothered by the wrong doings of other people. Even in the Christian religion we are that taught killing is wrong, no matter what the situation, “In the New Testament, love and mercy replace retribution. As the Apostle Paul taught… Similarly, ‘Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.’ Id. at 12:19. So God has said he will handle the vengeance.” (Dellapiana, 5) It is not up to us to decide who should be killed or not. We just know that we are not the ones who should take the lives of another man. We should leave these crimes up to God to handle. The Christian faith clearly states that we should not take the life of another man which eliminates the argument of the death penalty being on the same side as religion.
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