Justice or Injustice of the Death Penalty PHI 103: Informal Logic Justice or Injustice Imagine having to sit in a small cell that is roughly 6 x 9 x 9.5 feet, waiting for your turn atdeath. There are many held within the prison systems that are waiting on death row for committing a heinous crime unto others. In the judicial system for many states, when one commits bodily harm which causes the death of another; they are faced with death themselves. Who would be given this choice to decide what the killers’ fate should be? Should this be left up to a higher power of humanity? I do not feel that we as a society have the right to use the judicial system to put others to death. It would be more painful to let the perpetrator sit his natural life within those small walls. There is no justice in committing the same crime as the prisoner; which is to take the life of another human being. These individuals should be punished with remaining in the horrors of the prison system and who knows what fate may come their way by others who have lived the life theyhave portrayed. There are many prisoners who claim they had not committed any heinous crimes towards others, but remain behind the prison systems walls. With the modern technologies of DNA evidence; many who have sat most of their adult lives have been released due to new evidence that claimed they did not commit such crimes. What type of justice would it be, if a judge sentences someone for a crime that person claims they did not do; then that individual is executed and along comes some new evidence which points to a different person actually committing the crime. This person had been executed for nothing. They claimed to have not committed the crime and died trying to prove their innocence. Who cries for the innocentslaughter of their life? In turn of such hasty decisions, their own families become the victims of our judicial system. Who would be held accountable for the execution of an innocent person; who was...