Supporting a Position

Supporting a Position

*Supporting a Position-Rubr*ic The National Public Radio (NPR) podcast said it best when talking about the “Florida Mulls Lethal-injection problems.” The political issue is not about the murders, to a certain extent but more so of a power control to see who can be the first to prove a valid point. The people in the chair of decision making are the ones who are making the problem worse, as Dahlia Lithwick stated, “Texas is trying to use capital punishment for people who did not commit a murder which is wrong and needs to be addressed”. The issue should stop if no murder was committed or the justice system is just as guilty. Ending capital punishment is the only sure way to end the endless debate about the death penalty. That, however, is unlikely to happen, at least anytime soon. Arguments about its tremendous cost (given the lengthy appeal process), its morality, its potential for killing innocent people and its dubious effectiveness as a crime deterrent have barely dented widespread public sentiment that killing killers is just and appropriate for victims and for society. Judge Carven Angel of Ocala makes the point that so long as capital punishment remains the law of our state, we must ensure it is carried out as efficiently and humanely as possible. He goes on to say that our objective is to carry out a process that is consistent with evolving notions of the decency of man. It is not going to involve unnecessary lingering or wanton infliction of pain or lingering death. That observation sprang from the death of condemned killer Angel Diaz, whose December 13thexecution was initially botched by prison officials. I personally have been on the fence about this subject before but feel that every year;millions of people lose their lives due to natural disasters, war, hunger, disease and crime. The loss of these millions of lives often could not have been prevented. Yet the loss of thousands of lives due to murder could have been prevented. Murder is a voluntary...

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