I’ve heard a lot about the death penalty lately, and I’ve also been thinking about it extensively. Is it right for the state to take an individual’s life? Is it right for the state to keep the person alive and have the victim’s family never find peace? These are the questions that plague my mind day in and day out, and it’s my fundamental belief that killing is wrong. However, with that said, I believe that the death penalty is a necessary evil that humanity has to endure.
It’s a necessary evil because we as humans hold onto grudges, and our emotions. This causes us not to be able to make rational decisions about situations that affect more than just ourselves. When the death penalty is used it’s nothing but a barbaric form of justice, and does that make us barbaric? We claim to be civil, but is society just pretending? Before we as a society can get rid of the death penalty, we need to be able put our emotions aside and see things for what they truly are. But until that time I stand in firm affirmation that the death penalty is a necessary evil.
Liam Shissler
Everett
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