Dashardra Woodard
Dr. Insignares
Speech 220
Persuasive
28 April 2002
Why the Death Penalty Should Be Abolished?
Why should the death penalty be abolished? The death penalty should be abolished because of many reasons. Many people believe the saying, "an eye for an eye". But when will people realize that just because someone may have killed a love one that the best thing for that person is to die also. People don't realize that they are putting the blood of another person life on their hands. This makes them just as guilty as the person who committed the crime: the only difference is that they didn't use weapon except their mouth to kill them. The death penalty should be abolished because it is racist, punishes the poor, condemns those who are innocent to death, and is a cruel punishment.
Saleh-Hanna, a contributor
to the book "The Case for Penal Abolition " recently done some research and found that, "research and evidence has shown that most prisoners......
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