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What is wrong with the death penalty?

The death penalty which reduces our laws to the tribal level of revenge and also rules out any chance for rehabilitation is a barbarous, archaic, and inconsistent punishment with the complexities in modern justice.

The state must share the murderer’s crime as the death penalty forces them and creates a legal mechanism which if abused, could put any citizen’s life in jeopardy.

The death penalty is not a solution to the problem of homicide, finally where a convicted murderer is executed for it does not bring him back to life.

Proponents of capital punishment often argue that we need a final penalty which will deter would-be murderers from killing.

However, studies of which one was conducted by the University of Pennsylvania under the director of Thorsten Sellin and Marvin Wolfgang, show that the fear of execution is not an actual deterrent to homicide.

In the University of Pennsylvania study, states were compared with neighboring states who had outlawed the use of the death penalty.

Murder rates were compared in states with and without the death penalty where findings were given with no statistical differences in the frequency of murders on why, then, is there still so heated a debate over capital punishment?

The answer may be that there is an urge for revenge within the human psyche.

People feel more and more helpless especially in the face of rising crime rates, where they then want to strike out to get even and find a simple and final solution.

It is our duty, but unfortunate there are no simple answers to these complex problems for which we are rational human beings who must resist such irrational appeals.