Sign now and help stop the death penalty!
The death penality is not an answer. Murder is wrong, but the death penalty does not make that wrong, right. It is ethically, morally, and even economically wrong. The death penalty should be revoked because:
- It is too quick and doesn't allow for serious reflection on the life taken from this world.
- There is a clear possibility that innocent men can be convicted and then sentenced to death.
- Thirdly, it is far more costly to process the multitude of appeals prior to execution than it is to support the prisoner for life.
- Finally, killing, by an individual or a state or a nation is still murder.
Stop the death penalty today! Two wrongs do not make a right!
We all acknowledge that murder is wrong and those that perpetrate such a crime should be punished. However, they should not be killed. By killing a killer, you do very little to redress the original crime. The crime has still happened and the family of the victim must still go on with their lives without their loved one.
The death penalty should be revoked for three major reasons:
- As a nation, that condemns murder, it is hypocritical to then use execution as a just punishment. A nation should condemn murder, by all individuals and entities. A just nation should not use execution as a punishment.
- Secondly, the sentence of Life imprisonment without parole would be more appropriate punishment to murder. Only in this way, would a person have years of prison life to reflect on the life that was taken from this world. Death, frees them of this worldly punishment too quickly. It is sometimes argued that the fear of execition puts the fear of God in prisoners. BUT that is not enough we should put the fear of their fellow man in them too. Let them know we will not stand for their actions and that they will lose their life freedoms in exchange for life in prison.
- Thirdly, there are enough instances within the American judicial process in which innocent men have been convicted that it is clearly wrong to take the chance of killing a man that may be innocent. Only with life in prison will innocent men have the chance to prove the evidence against them is flawed.
- Finally, the cost to the USA via the appeal process is far greater than the cost of supporting people serving life sentences in prison. The cost of processing, and appealing a death penalty is far greater that execution, so much so, that it is economically wiser to revoke the death penalty.
Please revoke the death penalty.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned.
