What would the world be like if the guilty was punished? Great; if in that world we could punish only the guilty and not the innocent. Thousands of innocent people have found their demise through our justice system. For this reason, and this reason alone, we should not allow capital punishment to implement itself on society. For if we do, we are making a grave mistake. Humans alone don’t hold the power to justify …showed first 75 words of 665 total…

…showed last 75 words of 665 total…disregard capital punishment. How many innocent people died from the hands of justice? A hundred? A thousand? If the answer is greater than one, then that is too many. Jeffrey Reiman states that “refusing to execute murderers though they deserve it both reflects and continues the taming of the human species that we call civilization.” I place the question of whether or not the world will be a better place without capital punishment upon you