They take you from your jail cell at a scheduled time, it is time to die. You walk past the people you have been living with for years, awaiting this day. You take the long drive from your prison to the Death House; a building especially for executions. While there is no guillotine, the death penalty is just as barbaric and wrong as it was during the days of the Salem Witch Trials. This may be because of my trying to give everybody a second chance, or my seeing the good in people, but I do not believe that the death penalty should be legal anywhere. I mean really, who has the right to sentence somebody to death?
Nobody, thats my answer. I do not see who anybody can decide who lives and who dies, the whole things comes off as inappropriate to me. This is such a hard topic to discuss thought. I have never been directly affected by the death penalty but when we watch the, "Clifford Bogges," video in class my heart skips a beat. It's sad, its confusing, and its not right. Here the real complication. If somebody were to ask me, "So you don't think that Hitler deserved to die?" Im not exactly sure what i would say. Yes, of course he deserved to die, a painful death at that, but is the death penalty the right answer? I say no. Instead, lets let them rot in prison until they die, and bury them in the prison graveyard. It sounds cruel, and it is, but i think it is a much better option then just killing away our problems. Also, what kind of an example do we make as people when we punish killing by killing. Does that really make any sense? No parts of the death penalty make sense to me, and that is why I am in complete opposition with it's entirety.
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