by Gabriella Grimando, staff reporter
“I wonder all the time, if I will live to see the end of the death penalty. Capital punishment is the most heinous and cruel ways to punish someone. I don’t believe death should be an option, for any criminal.” Junior Frankie DeBonis said.
The death penalty has always been wrong. No one has ever, or will ever deserve to die. Giving someone the power to take someone else’s life is something that has never positively effected a society, never brought back a life, has never inspired anything but hate, and has also killed many people, who have later been proved to be innocent.
Many people support this strategy. “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” or otherwise known as the law of retaliation, is a law that a someone who has injured another person is penalized to a similar degree.
“I support the death penalty because not only is it way more inexpensive, but if someone murdered someone you love, you’d want them dead.” Senior Thelion Simmons said.
Another argument used to support capital punishment is the fear of being given the death penalty would stop criminals from committing murder. Most murderers feel that they have a fool-proof plan to get away with it. Unfortunately, most are right.
According to quora.com, approximately 6,000 people get away with murder each year in America.
In response, the eighth amendment says that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Nor cruel and unusual punishment. There is nothing crueler than death itself.
