“Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him..” a quote from the Bible, Leviticus 24:20. It is kind of ironic how people would argue that the death penalty is going against the the Bible’s moral code of “Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder,” one of the the Ten Commandments in the Bible, when the Bible also encourages justice for those who has been done wrong. The death penalty is a form of punishment against criminals who committed a crime so wrong, the only way of justice would be sentenced to death. Many would argue that this form of punishment is morally wrong. It is true that execution may be considered as a form of murder too, but the intentions of the execution is not as …show more content…
Life is precious and shouldn’t be taken lightly. David Bruck, an attorney who has represented many death row cases, argued against the use of the death penalty. In his claims he states that “...the death penalty system asks us to accept that the purpose of killing each of them is to affirm the sanctity of human life.” He implies that killing off all these murderer won’t secure the community for a safer environment. He also claims that not all criminals sent to the death chair are criminals at all and are actually innocent. Yes, it is true that the system can be flawed and that a few innocent people may get filtered into the deaths sentence. I will still stand by my argument that life is precious, especially for the innocence, Bruck even states several cases of innocent people who faced the possibility of execution. One was Lennel Jeter, a black engineer who was almost sent to execution for a robbery he had not commit and Roosevelt Green who took the fall for murdering a young woman (even if he was an accomplice). Jeter was saved from the death sentence, but Green not so much. These type of cases do come up, where the innocent could be wrongly accused of a crime and sent for their deaths, but according to Koch's claims, through a research by Mr.Bedau, that “of the 7,000 executions in this country from 1893 through 1971, and concludes that the record fails to show that such cases